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Recovering Residential Solar Industry Prepares for Wildfire Season — With Batteries

GreenTechMedia

Residential solar installers are gearing up for a surge of demand for battery storage products as the critical California market swings from a COVID-19 shutdown straight into wildfire season. ” SunPower begins installing Equinox solar-battery systems. Texas is another area,” SunPower CEO Tom Werner told GTM.

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SunPower’s ‘Proactive’ Coronavirus Damage Control Provides Protection in Q1

GreenTechMedia

After a rough April, SunPower said demand appears to be slowly growing back to pre-coronavirus levels. In March, depressed demand and the economic downturn pushed the company to cut executive salaries. SunPower logged a $1.4 Executives attributed those figures to a hangover from the dip in demand in April.

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Smart grid: IoT predictive maintenance guide

Smart Energy International

Predictive maintenance, which assists in determining live equipment conditions for timely maintenance, emerges as a key requirement to meet the growing demand for efficient uptime and rapid service reactions. Embracing this approach empowers utilities to strengthen their position as pioneers in a greener, resilient energy ecosystem.

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AutoGrid Responds Across the Globe to a Summer Like No Other

AutoGrid

Temperature records were logged across both the northern and southern hemispheres, with nearly 400 new records set. This heat feeds surging demand for electricity and increased strain on already taxed power grids. We also currently have behavioral demand response (BDR) programs in Spanish, Chinese, and English.

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SunPower Emerges Relatively Unscathed From Turbulent Q2

GreenTechMedia

Despite expectations for overall losses in 2020 — at least before pulling its annual guidance in March — SunPower logged GAAP net income at $19.4 million for Q2, up from losses of $1.4 million in the previous quarter (income was $121.5 in Q2 2019). megawatts in Q2.

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? The settlers of Catan squabble over ore #172

Climate Tech VC

  In deals, ~$400M for electric scooters and 3 mega $100M+ rounds for geothermal, solid flow batteries, and rural minigrids.  While oil demand seems to be nearing its peak , there’s no question that the need for critical metals is on the rise.   Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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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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