Clean energy offers many benefits to consumers, including\ reducing consumers{\textquoteright} electricity bills, lowering total electricity system costs, and providing health and resilience benefits.\ States can accelerate consumers{\textquoteright} access to these benefits with policies that support\ energy efficiency, demand flexibility, renewable energy and storage.\ Berkeley Lab developed\ a series of\ briefs\ that explore these consumer benefits of a clean energy transition,\ and identify actions states can take to promote them.
This brief discusses some of the possible consumer benefits of utility-scale and behind the meter renewable energy, with a focus on how these resources can contribute to a low-cost electricity system. It begins with a literature review of modeled impacts, primarily considering consumer benefits, of the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Next, it discusses how utility-scale renewable energy can contribute to a low-cost electricity system (e.g., in some cases, low\ resource costs relative to other alternatives). It concludes with a discussion of behind-the-meter renewable energy consumer benefits (e.g., reduced host electricity bill, increased property value, resilience).\
}, year = {2024}, month = {12/2024}, language = {eng}, }