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The battery revolution is exciting, but remember they pollute too
Batteries can cut carbon emissions, but mining the metals and other resources needed to make them can be a dirty business.
Caleb Goods and Carla Lipsig-Mumme

Jun 3, 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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Battery costs drop to key level as electric car sales continue to rise
Both electric cars and renewable energy stand to gain significantly from cheaper storage.
Valentin Muenzel

Apr 14, 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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Can distributed resources replace $1bn in substation upgrades?
New York’s main utility is proposing $200m distributed energy investments, to avoid $1 billion of upgrades to centralised grid.
Jeff St John

Dec 23, 2014

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Texas city aims for 950MW of solar, bold distributed energy goals
Austin city council approves plan for 55% generation to come from renewables, energy efficiency and other clean resources by 2025.
Jeff St John

Dec 15, 2014

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Batteries for private PV systems tipped to jump 10-fold
The global market for small rooftop PV systems coupled with power storage systems is expected to increase tenfold over next three years.
Tim Hanes and Sven Ullrich

Nov 21, 2014

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Flat battery? New prototype turns waste heat into electricity
Picture a device that can produce electricity using nothing but the ambient heat around it.
Tessa Evans

Nov 19, 2014

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Texas utility wants to invest $5.2b in battery storage
Oncor is asking the Texas deregulated market to allow 5 gigawatts of utility-owned, distributed grid batteries.
Jeff St John

Nov 12, 2014

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Panasonic and Powertree Services to build solar-storage EV chargers
The offering will combine vehicle charging with solar PV and battery backup.
Julia Pyper

Oct 27, 2014

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Stem banks $100M to finance no-money-down energy storage
Stem, a behind-the-meter energy storage startup, raised $100m to finance distributed energy storage at commercial and industrial customers.
Eric Wesoff

Sep 18, 2014

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The local and global impact of Tesla’s giga factory
Tesla giga factory in Nevada will make it the epicenter of real-world energy storage work.
Jeff St John

Sep 5, 2014

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