home battery system News
-
Tesla CEO Plugs into New Market with Home Battery System
Never lacking daring ideas, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is determined to jolt the electricity market. The CEO of electric car maker Tesla Motors hopes to park hundreds of millions of large, solar panel-connected batteries in homes and businesses so the world can disconnect from power plants - and he can profit. On Thursday night, before an adoring crowd and a party-like atmosphere, Musk ...
-
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 ...
-
Solar Battery for House: Peak Power VS Rated Power
The house solar battery has become one of the essential components of a solar system, but there are many specialized questions waiting to be understood by those new to the solar industry, such as the difference between peak power and rated power, which is one of the most frequently asked questions at BSLBATT. It is important to distinguish between peak power and rated power, which allows you to ...
-
Solar and Battery Storage to Participate in New England’s Wholesale Capacity Market
In a historic breakthrough for clean, distributed energy, Sunrun Inc.(Nasdaq:RUN), the nation’s leading home solar, battery storage and energy services company, this week won a bid to deliver home solar and batteries as a source of energy capacity to ISO New England, the grid operator for one of the largest electricity markets in the United States. Sunrun’s participation in New ...
-
Villara Energy Systems Teams up with Lumin to Provide High Power Battery Backup for Homes
Villara Energy Systems, maker of the high-powered VillaGrid energy storage system, announced this week its partnership with smart panel provider, Lumin. Lumin turns ordinary electrical panels into smart panels, protecting more circuits against power outages without allowing unintentional energy usage to drain batteries prematurely. Villara Energy Systems notes that its VillaGrid is the first home ...
-
Arizona Utility and NREL Launch One of the Largest-to-Date Home Energy Storage Studies
With home battery energy systems (BES) gathering market momentum, residents and utilities worldwide are weighing the benefits of storage. To advance understanding of this emerging technology, one utility in central Arizona is collaborating with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to launch one of the largest BES studies to date for up to 4,500 of its customers. Salt River Project ...
-
25,000 PG&E and Tesla Customers Invited to Form World's Largest Distributed Battery
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Tesla Inc. have launched a new pilot program that creates a virtual power plant, to help support electric grid reliability and save customers money. On June 22, Tesla invited approximately 25,000 PG&E customers with Powerwalls to join the VPP and help form the world's largest distributed battery. In the first two weeks of the new program, more ...
-
Clean Power Alliance (CPA) Expands Innovative Demand Response Program
Clean Power Alliance (CPA) this week announced the expansion of Power Response, an innovative demand response program that provides incentives for residents, businesses and public sector entities to reduce energy usage during periods of high energy demand. Last summer, an extended heat wave in California caused unprecedented high energy demand that threatened electricity outages across the state. ...
-
Voltstorage Extends Department for Software Development
Munich, April 2, 2020 – With its eco-friendly Redox Flow energy storage systems, VoltStorage relies on battery solutions “Made in Germany”. This also includes all IT and software solutions required for the installation, operation and monitoring of the VoltStorage systems. One example is the VoltStorage App, which gives battery owners access to all important data ...
-
Sunrun and PG&E Collaborate on Residential Battery-Powered Virtual Power Plant
Following a year of record-high summer temperatures in California, Sunrun and Pacific Gas and Electric Company this week (Feb 6) launched an innovative energy reliability program to provide meaningful and flexible support from residential solar and battery systems during the state's hottest months, when demand for energy is highest and energy supplies are tighter. Through the Energy Efficiency ...
-
Green Mountain Power Offers New “Bring Your Own Device” Program to Cut Energy Peaks
Green Mountain Power (GMP) has announced a new program to partner with customers to reduce costs during high energy use times. During peak times such as cold winter nights, GMP will share access with customers’ home or business battery storage systems, rather than purchasing expensive surplus power. In return, GMP will issue credits to customers based on the amount of energy transferred from the ...
-
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 ...
-
If Tesla Acquires SolarCity, Success Will Depend on Energy Storage
When Elon Musk unveiled his intent to acquire the solar installer SolarCity, many observers and investors balked. Some have wondered if the deal amounts to nothing more than a bailout for the Musk-supported SolarCity at Tesla’s expense. After all, what does a car company have to do with putting modules on people’s roofs? The business models are very different. Here’s how MJ ...
-
APS, First Solar Partner on Arizona's Largest Battery Storage Project
Two leaders in renewable energy, Arizona Public Service and First Solar, are bringing a first-of-its-kind 50-megawatt (MW) solar-fueled battery to the desert to provide clean power to Arizonans on hot summer days. This project will make Arizona home to one of the largest battery storage systems in the country. The innovative design models how the future of solar and storage can work together to ...
-
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 ...
-
Georgia Power, PulteGroup Celebrate Opening of Atlanta's First Smart Neighborhood
Georgia Power and PulteGroup are celebrating the opening of Atlanta's first Smart Neighborhood™. Leaders from Georgia Power, PulteGroup, the Georgia Public Service Commission, U.S. Department of Energy, City of Atlanta and the project's technology partners joined together to officially open the neighborhood recently at PulteGroup's development in Atlanta's Upper West Side, one of the city's most ...
-
Sunrun to Build and Operate Puerto Rico's First Virtual Power Plant
Sunrun, a leading home solar, battery storage, and energy services provider, this week (Nov 1) announced it has been exclusively selected by Puerto Rico's electric utility provider to help rebuild and transform the island's energy system through the development of a 17 megawatt virtual power plant (VPP), the first distributed large-scale storage program on the island. The VPP is intended to help ...
-
my-PV launches AC-THOR 9s power controller for hot water and space heating from photovoltaics on the market
The new power controller AC-THOR 9s can control both electrical room heating and water heaters up to 9 kilowatts of power linearly. It controls three-phase heating elements or up to three electrical heat sources and can even supply several heating circuits and regulate them independently of each other. Because it communicates with inverters, battery systems and smart home controls, the ...
By Siemens AG
-
Electriq Power Energy Storage Software Compatible with California's Demand Side Grid Support Program
Electriq Power Holdings, a provider of intelligent energy storage and management solutions for homes and small businesses, announced this week that its battery storage system, the PowerPod 2 and proprietary operational software, is compatible with California's new Demand Side Grid Support (DSGS) program. DSGS is a California statewide program introduced by the California Energy Commission. It ...
-
SunPower and The New Home Company Create Sustainable, Energy Independent Community
SunPower Corp., a leading solar technology and energy services provider, and The New Home Company , a top 50 homebuilder focused on creating a new generation of innovative homes, this week announced that New Home is making solar systems, battery storage and at-home electric vehicle chargers standard features in its newest community, Eureka Grove. All 72 homes in the Granite Bay, California ...
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you