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Sonnen Launches ‘Much More Accessible’ Battery for Home Backup and Grid Services

GreenTechMedia

After years of selling more expensive home battery systems, sonnen launched a new product Thursday to compete on cost with other mainstream options in the U.S. The Germany-based company, acquired by oil major Shell in 2019, designed its sonnenCore system to deliver daily cycling for grid services as well as backup power.

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California Shifts $100M in Behind-the-Meter Battery Incentives to Low-Income Communities

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Amid massive wildfires, rolling blackouts and the continued threat of large-scale grid outages, California is shifting more than $100 million of its $1.2 billion Self-Generation Incentive Program budget to help low-income communities install about 100 megawatts of stalled behind-the-meter battery projects. California Sen.

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Bring-Your-Own-Batteries and EV Chargers: The Future of Distributed Energy Integration?

GreenTechMedia

Distributed energy resources including rooftop solar, smart thermostats, behind-the-meter batteries, smart inverters and electric vehicle chargers have value for the customers installing them — and for the utilities seeing them proliferate across their distribution grids. power grids.

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Partners Open BC’s First Utility-Scale Solar Facility

Solar Industry

Summerland is one of five municipalities in the province to own its electrical utility, allowing the community to keep money in the local economy and increase the resiliency of the power grid, says Wildstone. This is meant to eliminate short-term demand spikes and lower peak loads, reducing overall demand costs.

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Sunnova Ends 2019 with Growth but Overall Losses, Heralds ‘Year of the Battery’

GreenTechMedia

The share of customers opting for batteries alongside solar, referred to as the "attachment rate," jumped from 15 percent in Q3 to 24 percent in Q4. The continued growth prospects inspired Berger to coin 2020 as the “year of the battery.” As a result, demand for our product offerings continues to increase.”

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Sunrun is building Puerto Rico’s first virtual power plant

Smart Energy International

Sunrun has been selected to build Puerto Rico’s first Virtual Power Plant (VPP) by the island’s electric utility provider. Sunrun said it will aggregate the solar and battery storage systems of more than 7,000 customers to form the 17MW VPP. The company is aiming to dispatch the VPP in 2024. Systems provided a combined 3.4

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Grid Edge M&A Alert: Sentient Acquires Varentec for Dynamic Grid Control

GreenTechMedia

Last year’s acquisition of Sentient, which has deployed its wirelessly networked, self-powered sensors on overhead and underground grid circuits across the country, gave KES a “vertical into the power grid area,” Jim Keener, then Sentient CEO, told Greentech Media last year. Varentec’s primary U.S.