Tag: power
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The Lightyear One is a prototype ‘solar car’ with 450 miles of range
Lightyear has introduced the first model of the Lightyear One, an electric vehicle covered in solar panels that it intends to start delivering to consumers in 2021. The automobile company was founded in 2016 by ex-members of Solar Team Eindhoven, a team of engineering students who won the solar-powered World Solar Challenge race at 2013,…
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Alternative Energy: Get 1500 Watts Of AC From Solar
Interested in alternative energy resources? Our electricity expert Robert Brenner will explain how you are able to get 1500 watts of AC power. RELATED: Solar Power | Innovative Use Of Rooftop Real Estate Alternative Energy Solutions | Emergency Power Backup (Based on the book: Power Out! How to Prepare for and Survive a Grid Collapse…
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U.S. Storage Market Sets Power Capacity Record with Q1 Deployments
The U.S. energy storage industry installed a record quantity of power capacity in the first quarter of 2019. The 148.8 megawatts of new grid storage capacity represented a 232% growth over Q1 2018, according to the most recent edition of the Energy Storage Monitor report created by Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Energy…
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Fact Checking President Trump’s Assessment of Wind Power and Electric Vehicles
U.S. President Donald Trump mocked renewable energy at 's campaign rally in Michigan. Implicating Hillary Clinton as part of Big Wind, Trump said, “If Hillary got in… you'd be doing wind. Windmills. Weeeee. And if it doesn't blow, you can forget about television for that night. 'Darling, I want to watch television. ' 'I'm sorry!…
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AMS Breaks 2 Gigawatt-Hours in Grid Services
Image Credit: Advanced Microgrid Solutions The competition for the title of”world’s largest virtual power plant” has largely been concentrated on residential solar-battery systems, like those being deployed by contenders such as Australia’s AGL or Vermont’s Green Mountain Power. But according to AMS, previously called Advanced Microgrid Solutions, the world’s biggest VPP is already up and…
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SolarEdge Delivers Record Revenue While Expanding Into New Businesses
SolarEdge enters 2019 as more than an inverter company. After seizing a lead the publicly traded company embarked on a string of acquisitions that expanded its footprint. SolarEdge coupled that growth with organic growth: It delivered 1.1 gigawatts-AC to get a record earnings of $263.7 million in Q4, according to the earnings data released Wednesday. Annual earnings…
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Energy Jobs: Big Regulator Moves, Rive Brothers Join Zola Electric, EnSync in Restructuring
We start this installment of the Energy Jobs column in possibly the most active state for the energy industry. This season, the California Public Utilities Commission brought on a brand new commissioner, Genevieve Shiroma. She was on the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, and also worked to the state’s Air Resources Board and invested nearly a…
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Energy Jobs: More Shuffles at Tesla, Layoffs at Cypress Creek, PG&E Departures Just Beginning
This year begins from several huge players in the business with some significant news. Tesla announced on its fourth-quarter earnings call Wednesday that CFO Deepak Ahuja will be retiring, and Zach Kirkhorn, formerly the company’s VP of financing, will soon be taking over. Put simply Tesla information, CEO Elon Musk lately declared that approximately 7%…
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New Hampshire Approves Groundbreaking Home Battery Pilot to Fight System Peaks
An advanced home battery pilot may go into effect after getting closing regulatory approval a week. The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission on Thursday affirmed the program, which will utilize a network of batteries in homes, possessed by the utility and parties, to reduce demand during peak hours. The program is intended to lower prices…
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AES Completes Record-Breaking Solar and Battery Plant on Kauai
Picture Credit: AES Corporation AES Corporation established the planet ’s largest battery plant paired with solar generation Tuesday, on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. This kind of power plant produces cheap, clean energy and also uses batteries to provide power when it is most precious, instead of just as soon as the sunlight shines. That’therefore…