Tag: power

  • Vodafone targets 100 per cent renewables-powered mobile network in 2021

    Vodafone targets 100 per cent renewables-powered mobile network in 2021

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    Mobile phone giant suggests target to slash emissions from companies which use services and its network Vodafone has announced plans to shift its whole European cellular network to run on 100 percent renewable electricity by no later than July 2021, along with a new target to assist its business clients slash their climate effect during…

  • What a Year! 10 Stories That Propelled Energy Storage in 2019

    What a Year! 10 Stories That Propelled Energy Storage in 2019

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    For too long, the rhetoric around what storage can do for the grid vastly outweighed the actual doing. This year, the industry closed that gap more than ever before. Exceedingly few batteries actually live up to the vision of “storing clean power for when the sun isn’t shining.” Batteries perform miniscule adjustments to grid frequency,…

  • One Small Step for Sunrun, One Giant Leap for Virtual Power Plants [GTM Squared]

    One Small Step for Sunrun, One Giant Leap for Virtual Power Plants [GTM Squared]

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    When a Sunrun bid won in a February ISO-New England wholesale capacity auction, it was seen by many as a landmark moment for distributed solar-plus-storage.  While the win encompassed only 20 megawatts, it affirmed the distributed solar industry’s growing interest in the virtual power plant model, where networked solar-and-storage provides an array of grid services.  Nearly…

  • California Seeks to Shift Major Battery Incentive Toward Fire, Blackout Resiliency

    California Seeks to Shift Major Battery Incentive Toward Fire, Blackout Resiliency

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    Within its background, California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program has been the state’s primary driver for distributed solar energy systems. And, over the last half-decade or thus, behind-the-meter batteries.  Today California regulators are proposing a role for SGIP: giving backup methods that are battery-solar to those at risk of blackouts and wildfires.  On Wednesday, the California Public…

  • 3 Trends That Shaped the Grid Edge in 2019

    3 Trends That Shaped the Grid Edge in 2019

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    It isn&; rsquo;t simple to transform rsquo & into a century;s value of electricity infrastructure in the ground up, particularly in the face of firestorms.  In return in 2019’s most important developments about the grid border — GTM's term for the port of the traditional utility enterprise with rooftop solar panels, behind-the-meter batteries, plug-in electric…

  • Fast Times for the US Residential Solar Market

    Fast Times for the US Residential Solar Market

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    Season brought a barrage of information on the operation of solar installers, since all the large national players are traded. For starters, the residential solar business is quite much alive, contrary to fears of years ago that these companies couldn’disagreements and t endure that solar is still an inherently local small company enterprise. Sunrun is…

  • Tesla and the Subtle Art of Turning Promise Into Reality [GTM Squared]

    Tesla and the Subtle Art of Turning Promise Into Reality [GTM Squared]

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    Any business venture entails some amount of faking it until making it. The difference between delivery and the promise subsequently becomes a barometer for your business 's credibility. Since I coated lately, Tesla's hotly anticipated solar roofing has, thus far, stayed more in the realm of promise than delivery. The merchandise Elon Musk initially showed…

  • PORSCHE TAYCAN (2020) Tesla Model S has a Tough Challenger

    PORSCHE TAYCAN (2020) Tesla Model S has a Tough Challenger

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    The Porsche Taycan four-door sports saloon is an unique package, offering average Porsche functionality and connectivity with everyday usability. At precisely the exact same time, highly innovative production methods as well as the features of the Taycan are currently setting new standards in the fields of digitalisation and sustainability. The earliest versions in the new…

  • Tesla Begins Renting Solar Panels for as Little as $50 Per Month

    Tesla Begins Renting Solar Panels for as Little as $50 Per Month

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    Tesla has worked to bring down the cost of its electric Vehicles, however there’s just so much that you can do in order to make big panels cheap. Consumer attention could pique, although the company & rsquo; s installation company has shrunk in recent quarters. Consumers in many states can lease Tesla solar panel installations…

  • Tesla has a new energy product called Megapack

    Tesla has a new energy product called Megapack

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    Tesla has launched a new utility-scale energy storage product called Megapack modeled after the giant battery system it deployed in South Australia as the company seeks to provide an alternative to natural gas “peaker” power plants. Megapack is the third and largest energy storage system offered by Tesla. The company also sells the residential Powerwall…