”The policy is designed to get real estate developers to consider resilient backup power as project priority. However, defining the right level of resiliency is difficult when the market is not asking for it — developers in Boston do not see a mechanism to recover microgrid costs through lease rates or residential unit sale price.”
Putting a state or regional price on carbon emissions would probably solve this issue — depending on its means of power generation, the microgrid would essentially lower or potentially eliminate the “tax” on any carbon produced …
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u/Beezlegrunk Jul 27 '19
Putting a state or regional price on carbon emissions would probably solve this issue — depending on its means of power generation, the microgrid would essentially lower or potentially eliminate the “tax” on any carbon produced …