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How to value solar plus storage

GreenBiz

How to value solar plus storage. In the wake of California’s summer of wildfires, blackouts and planned outages, many consumers and businesses are clamoring for more resilient options. The crisis has turbocharged interest in systems that deliver power even when the grid is down. Adam Aston. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 01:00.

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Watt It Takes: Opower’s Dan Yates on the Origins of Behavioral Efficiency

GreenTechMedia

Dan Yates and his co-founder Alex Laskey built Opower, an efficiency company that saves more energy every year than the hoover dam can generate. Opower was based on a simple premise: send paper mailers to utility customers comparing their electricity use to their neighbors. The Energy Gang is brought to you by Nor-Cal Control.

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What is a Virtual Power Plant (VPP)?

AutoGrid

What is a Virtual Power Plant (VPP)? By Peter Asmus, Director of Strategic Marketing Buzzwords are popping up in the new energy landscape, and chief among them is the term “virtual power plant” or VPP. Back in 2012, most VPPs did not include energy storage whereas today, storage is often viewed as a fundamental building block.

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The Era of ‘Super-Hybrid’ Renewables for Oil Majors?

GreenTechMedia

Some of them include floating solar panels. In this episode of The Energy Gang , we'll explore the " super-hybrid " approach to renewables. Another major utility is getting out of America’s largest coal plant and making investments in solar-generated hydrogen. Bloom Energy is even making electrolyzers.

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Biden’s Trillion-Dollar Climate Ambitions

GreenTechMedia

attorneys in Ohio and Illinois have been busy investigating racketeering and bribery by high-ranking public officials who are doing the bidding of utility companies. GTM : Biden Pledges $2T in Clean Energy and Infrastructure Spending. The Energy Gang is brought to you by Nor-Cal Control. Finally, U.S. Learn more.

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What Really Caused California’s Blackouts?

GreenTechMedia

Last week, short-term blackouts rolled across an overheated California after the grid operator said there wasn't enough power to meet demand. Then, coal power generation in the United States plunged 30 percent in just the first half of this year. The Energy Gang is brought to you by Nor-Cal Control. What really happened?

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The Rules for Early-Stage Cleantech Venture Capital Investment in 2021

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Think thin-film solar and biofuels, the two “big bad bets” that Shayle Kann, partner at Energy Impact Partners, identified in a 2020 Interchange conversation. billion according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance to $16 billion, according to PwC. ” Bring incremental improvements to fast-growing cleantech sectors.