The US startup Lunar Energy has raised another $232 million towards its goal of dominating the US home energy storage market, pushing Tesla’s Powerwall out of the picture.
The Executive Director of new energy coalition Common Charge, Mary Rafferty, sat down with me recently to tell us about what the organization is doing. The organization is focused on advancing distributed energy in the United States. “Common Charge is pushing for distributed assets (distributed energy resources) as the solution to … [continued]
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (“HASI”) (NYSE: HASI), a leading investor in sustainable infrastructure assets, and Sunrun Inc. (Nasdaq: RUN), America’s largest provider of home battery storage, solar, and home-to-grid power plants, today announced the closing of an innovative joint venture to finance distributed energy assets. The partnership is expected … [continued]
A small virtual power plant experiment in Edmonton, Canada is leading the push for more solar energy in that country.
Utility companies in California have collaborated with homeowners who own battery storage units from Tesla and Sunrun in a VPP test.
The leading rooftop solar installer Sunrun has high hopes for a fresh burst of activity in Texas, under a new partnership deploying Tesla’s Powerwall batteries and the Tesla Electric subsidiary of Tesla.
The leading US rooftop solar firm Sunrun is offering first-of-their-kind rollover credits with its new “Flex” solar-plus-storage system.
As California prepares for yet another summer marked by extreme heat, wildfire risks, and rising electricity demand, Sunrun is significantly scaling up its innovative CalReady distributed power plant. The project now links together 75,000 home solar batteries — four times larger than last year’s setup — becoming one of the … [continued]
I spent a lot of time at the dentist in the past week and a half. (It’s a long story.) At one point, I was talking to the dental hygienist who was cleaning my teeth, and we got to the topic of rooftop solar power. She said she considered it … [continued]
Sunrun, the largest rooftop solar company in the United States, recently hit a big milestone — one million customers. We recently sat down with Chris Rauscher, Head of Grid Services & Virtual Power Plants at Sunrun, to discuss this and related matters. Listen to the podcast via the following embedded … [continued]
