Genbright's Solar Assets Shine During First Major Test of New England’s New

Power Market Design

On Wednesday, regulators in Massachusetts approved a new solar incentive program known as the
SMART program, which stands for Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target. The program was
designed to bring an additional 1,600 megawatts of solar projects online in Massachusetts. A
significant share of this new solar is likely to be co-located with energy storage projects.

Hingham, MA, September 27, 2018 --(PR.com)-- An unusually hot and humid Labor Day put the
reliability of New England's bulk power grid to the test for the first time since the region's grid operator
introduced new market rules known as Pay for Performance (PFP). Under the PFP rules, all resources,
including intermittent resources like solar and wind, can be either penalized for underperformance, or
paid for over performance, during rare but critical capacity shortage events.

On September 3, 2018, the Independent System Operator for New England (ISO-NE) declared such an
event when sudden outages at two large natural gas units combined with higher than forecast power
demand resulted in an operating reserve deficiency or scarcity event. In the late afternoon on September
3, the loss of gas supply from the Everett LNG facility due to a power outage that resulted from a
distribution line fault triggered an outage at a 1,700 megawatt (MW) natural gas generator in
Charlestown, Mass.

At the same time, the day turned out to be hotter and more humid than anticipated across the six state
region. The peak temperature and dew point for the daytime hours in Boston were 94 and 73, above a
forecast of 89 and 70, while in Hartford the peak temperature and dew point for the daytime hours were
94 and 74, relative to forecasts of 90 and 71. The heat pushed actual demand for power above the demand
forecast by over 2,500 MW.

During the scarcity event, Genbright's portfolio of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), including solar
and demand response performed well, and based on preliminary reports, is expected to earn positive pay
for performance payments. This is despite the fact that the performance interval lasted for over 2.5 hours
and lasted well past peak solar production.

In addition to proving the suitability of stand-alone solar for participation in capacity markets under the
new Pay for Performance market model, details of the scarcity event suggest that the benefits will be even
greater when solar production is managed along with co-located energy storage. This is important
because regulators in Massachusetts just approved a long-awaited slate of new incentives for solar and
energy storage yesterday as part of the SMART program. SMART, which stands for Solar Massachusetts
Renewable Target, was designed to bring an additional 1,600 megawatts of solar projects online in
Massachusetts. A significant share of this new solar is likely to be co-located with energy storage
projects.

According to Genbright LLC, a company based in Hingham, MA that specializes in managing distributed
energy resources using its proprietary RAMP platform, performance data from the scarcity event that

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occurred on Labor Day provides insights into how solar plus storage projects can be actively managed to
perform capacity supply obligations over a long duration event. The implications of this also provide a
new perspective on storage and its role in providing reliability when co-located with solar.

“The capacity event in early September provided valuable new information that will help us derive
strategies for managing co-located solar and energy storage projects in real time to meet capacity
obligations for extended durations,” said Joe Crespo, CEO of Genbright. “For example, these strategies
could make it possible to meet our obligations during events that last more than two hours, even when
co-locating solar with a battery that only stores two hours of energy.”

The lessons learned during Labor Day's scarcity event is good news for solar developers and the New
England market in general, and demonstrates the increasingly important role that solar, storage and other
DERs will play in providing improved resource diversity and reliability to ISO-NE and other ISOs.

About Genbright LLC

Based in Hingham, MA Genbright LLC is a company that specializes in managing distributed energy
resources, including solar, storage, demand response and distributed generation, using its proprietary
RAMP platform.

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Contact Information:
Genbright LLC
William Pentland
207-291-0263
Contact via Email
www.genbright.com
Joe Crespo
joe.crespo@genbright.com
617-571-0133

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