Join AEC, Marriele Mango and Todd Olinsky-Paul, Senior Project Directors at Clean Energy Group (CEG), Wednesday, May 13 at 11 a.m. EDT for a presentation providing an overview of policies, programs, and projects that advance the equitable deployment of BTM battery storage. Speakers will also discuss efforts to replace polluting peaker power plants with battery storage, including a presentation of a Clean Energy States Alliance and Strategen analysis that demonstrates how batteries can cost-effectively replace aging fossil-fueled peakers in ISO New England.

Marriele Mango is a senior project director for Clean Energy Group. In this role, Marriele manages technical assistance and capacity building programs to support critical service providers and community-based organizations in their efforts to development resilient power projects that benefit marginalized communities. She also leads CEG's efforts advocating for resilient power as essential to public health and emergency response, especially for high-risk and medically vulnerable populations. Marriele holds a M.S. in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management from The New School.

Todd works on CEG’s Resilient Power Project in the areas of solar+storage for critical infrastructure energy resiliency, distributed energy storage policy and economics, and is the CEG/CESA lead for state energy storage policy support. He also directs CESA’s Energy Storage and Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP) project, which aims to accelerate large scale electrical energy storage deployment through collaborative efforts between state energy agencies, US DOE Office of Electricity and Sandia National Laboratories. His recent work has focused on supporting state energy storage program and policy development, particularly in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, with independent research and analysis in the areas of energy storage with equity, virtual power plants, battery storage as an efficiency measure, policy best practices, interconnection barriers and energy storage benefit-cost analysis. Todd holds an M.S. in Environmental Policy from Bard College and a B.A. from Brown University.

This presentation is part of AEC's Energy, Environment, and Equity Forum.