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OhmConnect Raises Infrastructure Funding for 550MW ‘Power Plant’ of Home Demand Flexibility

GreenTechMedia

A $100 million investment in residential demand response is redefining what "infrastructure" can be. More recently, they have ventured into new items, like distributed batteries in commercial real estate, as with Stem and AMS. Home energy modulation as energy infrastructure.

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Green Realtor® Guide: Marketing Eco-Friendly Homes and Sustainability

Green Business Bureau

Realtors® and Home Buyers Going Green. As a green realtor® passionate about the planet’s future and our own, you can play an important role in delivering the message of sustainability to homeowners and support a greener, healthier real estate industry. There is also a growing number of homebuyers desiring green homes.

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Why Empty Office Buildings Still Consume Lots of Power During a Global Pandemic

GreenTechMedia

What happens to an office building’s electricity demand when almost everyone who works there is stuck at home? But just because a building is almost empty of people doesn’t mean that its energy use drops to nothing. pecent this year. pecent this year.

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Residential Buildings Adapting the Sustainable way

Econaur

million sq meters of green building space and this statistic is from the end of 2018. The focus of these spaces is on the efficient use of natural resources including energy (sunlight), water and construction materials. Also, green homes are meant to be cost-effective, self-sustaining and have low maintenance needs.

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Will the Distributed Energy Revolution Leave Renters Behind?

GreenTechMedia

The grid outages hitting California this year gave the clean energy industry a chance to prove itself, to show that localized solar power and batteries really can help people ride through grid disruption. All those people cannot access the much vaunted benefits of cleaner, decentralized energy.

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Sonnen Brings Virtual Power Plants to California Apartment Complexes

GreenTechMedia

On Thursday, the Shell-owned German home battery provider and the Utah-based real estate company announced plans to direct $130 million of investment to bring 60 megawatt-hours of energy storage to multifamily solar-battery projects across the Golden State over the next few years. Their first $19.7 Their first $19.7

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'Hefty premium': How EV drivers without home charging are being penalised as energy costs soar

Business Green

Electric vehicle (EV) owners without access to offstreet parking who can not charge at home are paying a "hefty premium" to recharge their electric vehicles (EV), according to new research that has today highlighted how the price gap between domestic and public charging has widened as energy costs have soared.