domestic battery storage News
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Centrica to Expand New Home Energy Management Offers
Centrica is to expand its smart home activity in a move that is expected to unlock the power of millions of customers' homes, driving down electricity bills through the development of new propositions that will also support the flexibility of the grid. The company is working to integrate solar, battery and heat pump technology into its customer offer and has estimated that the co-location of ...
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SOU is also awaiting confirmation on an additional $2 million federal grant that will further fund its campuswide solar buildout initiative.
Rod Walton, EnergyTech senior editor, describes an ERCOT pilot project with implications for microgrids. FERC 2222 is coming to the Lone Star State. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the system operator which manages the state’s grid, has authorized a pilot project to evaluate the participation of aggregated distributed energy resources (DERs) in the ERCOT wholesale ...
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Solar and storage can form essential pillar of EU Green Recovery
This week, SolarPower Europe published two recommendation papers on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and Recovery and Resilience Plans. These publications occurred in the context of voting in the European Parliament, as the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Budgets adopted a mandate to negotiate with the EU Council on the Recovery and Resilience Facility ...
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Sunrun Signs Virtual Power Plant Agreement With Southern California Edison
Sunrun, a leading provider of residential solar, battery storage and energy services, recently announced that it has contracted with one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, Southern California Edison (SCE), to increase grid resilience and lower power costs. SCE will send signals to Sunrun during high-demand events such as extreme heat waves when the energy grid is strained. In ...
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SEPA's Energy Storage Snapshot Highlights Opportunities in Nascent Storage Market
The Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) has announced the release of the 2018 Utility Energy Storage Market Snapshot, the second annual overview of the energy storage market.Now in its second year, the Energy Storage Market Snapshot relies on data and survey responses submitted directly by U.S. utilities. The 137 utilities that submitted data for SEPA's survey represent more than 82 million ...
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Sunnova Grows its Virtual Power Plant Network
Sunnova Energy International, an leading adaptive energy services company, this week announced continued investments and expansion to its virtual power plant (VPP) network designed to provide increased reliability, reduced emissions, and lower costs.With its VPP investments, Sunnova is boosting accessibility in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, and Texas ...
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Generac Grid Services to Deliver Comprehensive, End-to-End DERMS Solution for Arizona Public Service
Generac Grid Services, a subsidiary of Generac Power Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of energy technology solutions and other power products, announced this week that it has been awarded a multi-year contract from Arizona Public Service (APS) to deliver additional grid capacity from residential battery storage systems. The agreement leverages Generac Grid Services' Concerto™ ...
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Alectra Study Identifies Residential Solar Storage Potential
Alectra Inc., with the support of the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), has completed a feasibility study for mass adoption of the utility's residential solar storage pilot, POWER.HOUSE, in Southern York Region. The feasibility study focused on analyzing costs, benefits, technical capabilities, and key considerations associated with aggregating a large-scale fleet of solar storage ...
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VoltStorage extends Redox Flow research team
Munich, 27th March 2020 – After successful market entry of the world’s first low cost residential battery storage on the basis of the ecological Vanadium Redox Flow technology, VoltStorage focuses on the future. This is why the VoltStorage research department was extended already in summer 2019 to push ahead innovations. VoltStorage is expanding today again with two new and ...
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CPUC Issues Solar Tariff Modernization Proposal To Support Reliability and Decarbonization
The California Public Utilities Commission this week (Nov 10) issued a proposal to modernize the Net Energy Metering (NEM) solar tariff to promote solar and battery storage, grid reliability, and control electricity costs for Californians. The update launches the solar industry into the future so that it can support the modern grid by incentivizing solar paired with battery storage and the ...
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Amplus Launches the MILES Challenge for Clean Energy Start-Ups in India
Amplus Solar recently announced the launch of the MILES (M+Innovation Lab for Energy and Sustainability) Challenge for start-ups with ready to deploy solutions in the Clean Energy ecosystem in India. Launched in association with GoMassive Earth Network, an angel investor forum focused on sustainability,The MILES Challenge will provide participants mentorship as well as access to resources in the ...
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Orange & Rockland and Sunrun To Bring Innovative Rooftop Solar and Battery Network To New York
Orange & Rockland (O&R) and Sunrun Inc. - a leading home solar, battery storage and energy services company - this week announced the companies have received approval to deploy rooftop solar and battery systems as part of an innovative virtual power plant project supporting New York's transition to clean, reliable, locally generated electricity. Beginning this year, Sunrun will bundle ...
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Generac Grid Services Partners with California Utility on Virtual Power Plant Program
Generac Grid Services announced this week that it has been selected by Southern California Edison (SCE) as one of the Virtual Power Plant (VPP) providers for the company's Power Flex program. The initiative empowers SCE residential customers to extend the value and return on investment of their residential solar PV and battery storage systems by enrolling them in a VPP designed to alleviate ...
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PGE Program Will Transform Hundreds of Homes Into a Virtual Power Plant
Portland General Electric is set to launch a pilot program that will incentivize installation and connection of 525 residential energy storage batteries that PGE will dispatch, contributing up to four megawatts of energy to PGE’s grid. The distributed assets will create a virtual power plant made up of small units that can be operated individually or combined to serve the grid, adding flexibility ...
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Sunrun Brings Brightbox Home Solar Batteries, Virtual Power Plant To Vermont
With families across the country enduring a rising number of power outages, Sunrun Inc. announced recently (8/28) it is bringing its Brightbox home solar and battery service to customers in Vermont.Starting this month, Vermont households can get Sunrun's solar-powered home battery, Brightbox, from as little as zero dollars down and at a low monthly rate. Brightbox customers in Vermont will also ...
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Nuvve and Swell Energy to Partner on Intelligent Electric Vehicle Charging Solution
Nuvve Holding Corp. and Swell Energy Inc. this week announced they are launching a strategic engagement to advance opportunities for electric vehicle participation in Swell's virtual power plant (VPP) network. Together, the companies aim to advance distributed energy resource (DER) management technology in both residential and commercial markets. Nuvve notes that this collaboration will expand ...
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Southern Company subsidiaries Alabama Power and Georgia Power Continue Building the Future of Energy with Innovative Smart Neighborhood Projects
Southern Company and its Alabama Power and Georgia Power subsidiaries have officially announced Smart Neighborhood™ initiatives that will provide customers with state-of-the-art home construction, distributed energy resources – including solar and battery energy storage – and smart home appliances and technologies.The first-of-a-kind Smart Neighborhoods – located in Atlanta and suburban ...
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