GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Home batteries proved their resilience value during Vermont's Halloween blackout. A major rain and wind storm struck the state at the close of October, knocking out power to some 115,000 customers. The battery backup service lasted nine hours on average, but the longest instance ran for 82 hours.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

Residential energy is becoming companies' business. In this crazy upside-down world, the line between residential and commercial energy is getting fuzzy. . Everything changed so quickly, it makes sense that climate and energy teams have yet to figure out how to account for the shift. Sarah Golden.

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Charged

MARCH 17, 2025

Japanese firm Tadano, considered one of the largest manufacturers of hydraulic cranes in the world, has released its new eGR-1000XLL-1 EVOLT, a 100-ton electric rough-terrain crane that offers customers the same lifting capacity as its diesel fuel-powered counterpart. Source: Tadano

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

economy into free fall this spring, the energy storage industry delivered its second-best quarter ever in terms of megawatts installed. Despite social-distancing orders, more customers than ever before added batteries in their homes to store solar power and provide backup power amid hurricanes, wildfires and other types of grid outages.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Vermont utility Green Mountain Power not only verified the efficacy of residential batteries for meeting grid needs, it saved its customers millions of dollars with them. It already has not a couple hundred, but 2,567 utility-controlled Powerwall batteries sitting in customer homes, adding up to around 13 megawatts.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 24, 2020

A new residential grid flexibility service available in parts of the U.K. will combine energy storage, vehicle-to-grid and smart EV charging for the first time. The project, led by energy technology firm Kaluza, will trade that flexibility in close to real-time conditions. Western Power Distribution serves about 8 million U.K.

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Charged

MARCH 10, 2025

EV charging hardware manufacturer Wallbox has taken a step towards the day that EV drivers will be able to use the batteries in their vehicles to provide backup power for their homes and to save money on their electric bills. Maximum power transfer is 12.8 No, its not feasible to do DC fast charging at home.)

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

Dan Seif is vice president for market development at 7X Energy, a Texas-based solar developer. Let’s stop pretending that we’re paying for “energy” via our home power bills and understand that we’re mainly paying for infrastructure.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2023

From fleet management to environmental monitoring and smart grid management, to consumer applications including smart watches, smart buildings and, ultimately, entire smart cities. Think smart thermostats, alarm and access control systems for the home, smart bulbs, smart meters – you see where this is going.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2024

Jordan Brompton is co-founder of myenergi, a UK designer and manufacturer of renewable energy products. Jordan Brompton explains how developments in smart tech are enabling increasingly eco-conscious consumers to more easily and effectively transition towards off-grid renewable energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

Homeowners who make their properties more energy efficient could see their mortgage rate cut under a new government-backed pilot. They are aimed at encouraging and helping homeowners make their properties more energy efficient, with measures such as loft insulation and double glazing. million of government funding.

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altenergymag

APRIL 27, 2021

The residential battery project calls for Electriq Power to deploy its industry-leading PowerPod platform in 10 Grand Cayman homes to showcase behind-the-meter energy storage system technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The UK’s first all-electric intercity bus service drove off with a top prize at the Scottish Green Energy Awards on 1 December. The bilingual multi-purpose facility uses a mix of energy sources such as solar panels, an air source heat pump, battery storage and insulation to reduce its dependence on the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 7, 2020

John Powers is the co-founder and CEO of Extensible Energy, a load-flexibility software company. *. We are in the middle of the most remarkable transformation in the history of the electricity grid — from dirty and centralized to clean, distributed, and digital. Don’t get me wrong: I love batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 18, 2021

Hawaii's largest utility enlisted a new tool in its quest for a carbon-free electricity system: thousands of batteries installed in people's homes. Hawaiian Electric won regulator approval for a $25 million plan to harness solar and batteries at 6,000 homes across the islands of Hawaii, Maui and Oahu.

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altenergymag

MAY 12, 2020

The Elk Neck Behind-the-Meter Virtual Power Plant in Cecil County, Maryland will provide backup power for homes in an isolated community on the Chesapeake Bay while enhancing grid reliability and DER integration, and demonstrating the overall grid value of aggregated behind-the-meter residential battery systems to Maryland energy companies and policy (..)

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Charged

JULY 28, 2022

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Tesla have launched a pilot program that will combine thousands of Powerwall home battery systems to create a “virtual power plant” or “distributed battery.” They can use the Tesla app to set their backup power needs or to opt out of a particular event, as necessary.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

Residential batteries outperformed the rest of the energy storage sector in first quarter deployments. The first quarter of 2020 marked the fourth consecutive record for home battery installations, according to the new Energy Storage Monitor , from Wood Mackenzie and the Energy Storage Association.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Industry-leading project designed to improve feeder-level system reliability and resiliency.

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

More electronics are being incorporated into residential rooftop solar systems all the time, mostly due to updates to the National Electrical Code (NEC). When microinverters… The post The pros and cons of various module-level electronics in residential solar + storage systems appeared first on Solar Power World.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

Smart home electrical panel, meet voice-activated home controls. Over the past five years, Amazon’s corporate venture capital fund has been investing in a range of technologies that can integrate with its market-leading home automation and digital assistant business.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

And in energy circles, one of the biggest buzzwords in recent years is the virtual power plant, or VPP. But VPPs have really taken off in the last 10 years, not just as a concept but as something that a growing number of energy companies are creating, using and commercializing. Another difference concerns markets and regulation.

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Solar Power World

APRIL 21, 2020

By Adam Gerza, COO of Energy Toolbase Energy storage net energy metering (aka NEM paired storage) allows a customer with a behind-the-meter solar + storage system to discharge their battery, exporting stored energy back to the grid and receive a net energy metering credit, if the battery can verifiably charge 100% from solar.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

Sunrun is landing contract after contract to put solar-charged residential batteries to work serving grid needs. On Thursday, it picked Silicon Valley energy management software startup AutoGrid to help it optimize this growing fleet. ” Fleets of batteries, meet optimization software.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Compiled by global climate tech company, IES, using its digital twin technology, the Local Area Energy Plan (LAEP) identified changes to the borough’s buildings and energy generation needed to hit the net zero target. It is estimated that over 2,100 public charging points for electric vehicles will be required.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Farmers could soon be reimbursed for creating water storage ponds or water “batteries” as part of an innovative drought-prevention project that has received funding (on 16 May) from Ofwat’s Innovation Fund. This technique is cheaper and more environmentally-friendly than current monitoring practices.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 13, 2025

A two-phase approach to Lithium pProduction The project will roll out in two key phases: Phase One Drilling and testing two 2,000-meter-deep geothermal wells to extract lithium-enriched brine and assess potential for geothermal heating for local homes and businesses. If successful, a commercial facility will follow.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Swell Energy has lined up $450 million in financing to give homeowners and business owners batteries and solar systems at no upfront cost, and earn the money back by turning them into virtual power plants serving utilities’ grid needs. Ares Management Corp.

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PV Tech

JULY 22, 2024

The amount of residential solar paired with a battery energy storage system (BESS) in California has increased notably under the state’s new net energy metering 3.0 (NEM scheme.

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 14, 2024

California is regularly seen as a leader in clean energy, and no area of the country has more solar or energy storage deployments. Remarkably though, the attachment of batteries to residential solar installations has been low — until recently, only 10% of home solar systems in California also had batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

energy storage industry smashed its quarterly installation record with an influx of major projects in the third quarter. The growth came in spite of the coronavirus fallout, which slammed the broader economy and conventional energy companies in particular. Energy Storage Monitor. market is expected to reach 7.5

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

An increasing number of homeowners are investing in residential energy storage systems (RESS) solutions to reduce inconveniences associated with power outages and in some cases, reduce costs and increase their use of renewable power. According to the report the RESS solutions market is expected to grow at a 21.3%

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

I just had a solar-plus-storage system installed at my new home in Tempe, Arizona. Don’t get me wrong — I love our new system and take immense pride in all the carbon-free energy it will produce for us and the grid. Costs for solar and residential batteries have dropped precipitously.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Span.IO, the San Francisco-based startup that makes a smart home electrical panel that can track and control behind-the-meter batteries, rooftop solar inverters, EV chargers and other key household loads via smartphone, has landed a $10.2 Under the hood of Span’s home power control system. Leading U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 27, 2020

Residential and commercial energy storage installations are taking a hit as the U.S. The behind-the-meter storage segment will install 31 percent less capacity in 2020 than previously forecast, according to a new analysis by research firm Wood Mackenzie. ” The residential storage market has a different problem.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2020

billion Self-Generation Incentive Program budget to help low-income communities install about 100 megawatts of stalled behind-the-meter battery projects. The shift won’t tap the $613 million in SGIP funds earmarked for low-income and medically vulnerable customers at highest risk of fire-prevention power outages.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 18, 2024

Image: GM General Motors’ initial new home energy products are now available to purchase, including the equipment necessary to turn your GM-made electric vehicle into a mobile power generator for your home. A “properly equipped home” and “proper grid interconnection” may also be required, GM says.

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