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New Tesla Gigafactory Permits Reveal Plan to Build a Microgrid Lab
Tesla's Model 3 EV sdan is due to launch tomorrow, but solar PV energy storage and renewable/hybrid microgrids also loom large in Tesla's strategic plans as it continues to play a central, driving role in the evolution of a new digital, distirbuted "green" energy economy.
Read more →Tesla-SolarCity Swoops In On Nascent Island Microgrid Market
Successive news announcements makes it clear that Tesla-SolarCity has had its eyes on island solar-storage microgrids for quite some time.
Read more →A Solar-Plus-Storage Microgrid at a South Pacific Resort Collects SEANZ Award For PowerSmart
PowerSmart garnered two first-prize awards at the Solar Electricity Association of New Zealand's annual conference, one for an off-grid solar PV-energy stoarge min-grid being built for the Vanabuku luxury residentital resort project and another grid-connected prize for an installation at New Zealand's Yealands Estate Winery.
Read more →Postcard From the Future? Ta'u Island Ditches Diesel With Tesla-SolarCity Microgrid
In 'Before The Flood,' Elon Musk tells Leonardo DiCaprio that just 100 Gigafactories would be enough to move the entire world to sustainable energy. While critics scoffed, Tesla and SolarCity were busy building the prototype. Just days after the Tesla-SolarCity…
Read more →Elon Musk Explains Why The Tesla-SolarCity Merger Is All About Microgrids
Tesla offered to buy SolarCity last week for $2.8 billion , causing confusion and criticism from some TESLA shareholders who saw the offer as a distraction from their core business. Elon Musk asked shareholders to to examine the deal in…
Read more →TESLA Makes Bid To Buy SolarCity To Become Vertically Integrated Clean Energy Company
TESLA made a surprise offer today to acquire SolarCity in an effort to become a vertically-integrated clean energy provider. Noting that their mission has always been sustainability, TESLA notes that while they offer electric vehicles and energy storage, their customers…
Read more →SolarCity and Tesla Package First Solar-Storage PPA To Deliver Solar Energy On Demand in Kaua'i
SolarCity announced it had chosen sister company Tesla's Powerpack to provide 52MWh of energy storage for what's billed as the U.S.' first utility-scale solar PV-energy storage system being built on the Hawai'ian island of Kauai'i.
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Austin Readies Launch of 2 SHINES Solar-Storage Pilot Projects
Austin Energy's SHINES pilot projects are to pave the way toward a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of $0.14/kWh for solar PV systems that employ advanced Li-ion battery-based storage to dispatch electrical power night and day.
Read more →Solar-Storage On the Rise in Europe as Solar Tax Credits And Feed-in Tariffs Fall
The declining costs of battery storage technologies (Li-ion in particular) and ratcheting down of solar tax credits and feed-in tariffs (FiTs) is enhancing the financial viability of integrating solar PV and stationary battery systems. That's true in the broadest of…
Read more →Veridian Microgrid To Combine Tesla Powerwall, EV Charging, and Solar Using Opus One Software
Veridian Connections announced this week they are rolling out a “ virtual power plant ,” with a new microgrid system. The southern Ontario utility says the microgrid project will provide significant benefits to their customers. "This project serves as the…
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Distributed energy resources can already balance themselves on a local microgrid
At ESNA 2015, UCSD's Byron Washom described his 'hallucinogenic dreams,' where solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, and other distributed energy resources (DER) orchestrate a clean, balanced, and efficient electric grid. He might not be crazy after all. Accelerating into a…
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Energy Storage Addresses The Causes and Effects of Climate Change
Should we focus on stopping the root causes of climate change or start adapting to the new reality? Energy storage does both. Increased Severity and Frequency of Extreme Weather [wpsm_quote author="Kevin Trenberth - U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research" float="right"…
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