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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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Tesla to unveil 5kW home storage, 200kW commercial storage systems
Tesla’s big battery storage announcement is likely to focus on a 5-kilowatt home unit and a 200-kilowatt commercial-scale battery.
Eric Wesoff

Apr 27, 2015

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Hawaii’s biggest utility wants to ditch solar net metering
New tariff will pay less for solar, but open the grid to more customer-owned PV.
Jeff St John

Jan 22, 2015

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Commentary

Another giga factory underway as SolarCity chooses NY for $5bn solar plant
SolarCity strikes a deal with New York for solar manufacturing plant. The projected economic boost is good news today. Will it continue into the future?
Stephen Lacey

Sep 25, 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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US media giant offers to pay employees to try solar
Eligible employees of Cox Enterprises who want to try solar power will receive a $500 incentive.
Jake Richardson

Jun 24, 2014

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Other Good Stuff

SolarCity plans 1GW solar factory as solar costs plunge
An insight into why Elon Musk and Lyndon Rive have committed to 1GW solar factory – unsubsidised solar competing with fossil fuels.
Stephen Lacey

Jun 18, 2014

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Will utilities control behind-the-meter solar batteries?
Sunverge sees a future in building and managing customer energy-storage systems as utility assets.
Jeff St John

Apr 22, 2014

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Other Good Stuff

How Wall Street suddenly fell in love with solar
Solar is in Wall Street’s good books after NYT notes that the solar power “craze” is partly responsible for th market’s recent good times.
Tina Casey

Jan 7, 2014

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CleanTech Bites

SolarCity launches energy storage for business using Tesla battery packs
SolarCity teams up with EV maker Tesla. Can it do for energy storage what it has done for solar power?
Eric Wesoff

Dec 6, 2013

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