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Fast-acting flexibility at a premium for a green-powered Western Grid
A new report finds 15-minute resources like energy storage and demand response are crucial for balancing wind and solar.
Jeff St John

Oct 30, 2015

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How solar, batteries and time-of-use pricing can add up to value
Sunverge’s Sacramento pilot demonstrates the value of stored solar energy for critical peak pricing.
Jeff St John

Oct 22, 2015

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GE launches digital power plant to act as virtual battery for wind and solar
The IOT-equipped, cloud-supported software suite aims to squeeze increased flexibility and efficiency out of existing and new gas-fired power plants.
Jeff St John

Sep 30, 2015

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Value of battery-backed solar in California: 25¢/kWh
Storage advocates use net-metering models to calculate a potential tariff for solar-plus-storage.
Jeff St John

Sep 9, 2015

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Could millions of smart meters be used to create a powerful supercomputer?
Hive Computing wants to rival the processing power of Google and Amazon by harnessing idle smart meters.
Jeff St John

Aug 10, 2015

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How EV chargers and energy storage can make good grid partners
ChargePoint and Green Charge link batteries and public EV chargers to limit demand charges and make loads more flexible.
Jeff St John

Jul 23, 2015

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SolarCity’s plan for Tesla batteries: share grid revenues with homeowners
CTO Peter Rive on how a $5,000 battery, co-financed with solar, can break open markets and serve grid-edge needs.
Jeff St John

May 5, 2015

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US solar generation doubled in 2014, renewable output grew 11%
And that’s not counting rooftop solar or distributed renewables.
Jeff St John

Mar 10, 2015

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Alevo promises 200MW of grid storage projects to back its batteries
Can bankrolling deployment of its own batteries help a secretive startup gain market traction?
Jeff St John

Feb 19, 2015

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Hawaii to test rooftop solar limits with island grid
Hawaii is a solar hot spot – and fitting test-bed for DoE research to stretch limits of rooftop PV penetration on island grids.
Jeff St John

Jan 29, 2015

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