Tag: energy
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Tesla Hikes Powerwall Prices to Better Reflect ‘Value’
If you looked at Tesla's Powerwall site earlier this week you may have noticed that the cost for”supporting hardware” had softly booted up. That hardware, known as the Gateway, has been listed at $700. It rose to $1,100. Now, Tesla followed with an global pricing adjustment to the Powerwall, it's house energy storage strategy. In…
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California Community Solar Isn’t Working. SoCal Edison Wants to Redesign It
Southern California Edison is requesting authorities for permission to enhance clean energy supplies for customers that can’t even install rooftop solar. The utility connects between 3,000 and 5,000 solar roofs a month, but many of its 15 million customers don’t possess their houses or have access to some rooftop for solar energy generation. From rsquo…
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Who Stores It Better: Residential or Commercial Grid Services Fleets?
The dispersed solar business is diverging from “just solar. ” A growing roster of organizations discuss adding energy storage into solar panels and then aggregating these resources into dispersed plants. The business model for that idea is very much up for debate. Two camps have already formed. On one side: the industrial installers. They cope…
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ElectrIQ Raises $6 Million Seed Round to Finance Home Storage Push
Bay Area startup ElectrIQ raised a $6 million seed around to encourage its challenge. Earlier this month, the company introduced a new product, the PowerPod, which packs 11 kilowatt-hours of energy capability, an inverter and smart house integration into a $8,999 package. This left the question of a 17-person startup could keep competition with the likes…
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Hurricanes Boost Interest in Residential Storage
Image Credit: Shutterstock.com One year later Hurricanes Harvey and Maria crushed Texas and Puerto Rico, Florence became one of the ten costliest hurricanes in U.S. history. North Carolina is still reeling from severe flooding. And like Houston last year, the damage was made worse because of coastal growth policies — even while state scientists first…
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8 Energy Blockchain Partnerships to Watch
The U.K. blockchain company Energi Mine came out with a large partnership announcement in August. Each week of the month, the company explained, it would be announcing a new partnership. Why the fuss? A lot of this has to do with the condition of the energy blockchain market. Early movers such as Energi Mine, that…