What Changed In The Solar Energy & Storage Markets In October?
What happened in the solar & storage industries in October? A lot! Below is a concise summary of the most notable solar and energy storage stories of the month.
What happened in the solar & storage industries in October? A lot! Below is a concise summary of the most notable solar and energy storage stories of the month.
A planned community on the Boston’s South Shore will be a laboratory for sustainable cities worldwide, marrying internet of things technology with renewable energy to create a healthy environment for living and working.
Tesla will supply 200 Powerpack grid scale storage batteries to Nantucket to serve as backup power for the island.
Lazard is a global asset management company that tracks the cost of producing electricity, among other things. It uses a measure called the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), which averages the estimated costs of construction, maintenance, and fuel for electricity generating assets over the number of megawatt-hours that each is expected to produce over its lifetime. In simple terms, it is one way of comparing different ways of making electricity to see which cost more and which cost less.
Tesla (and FEMA) have garnered most of the press for relief efforts aimed at restoring power to Puerto Rico. Certainly, Tesla and FEMA have been involved in relief action (and inaction), but they are far from the only players in the game. Others have also launched efforts to restore power to the island nation.
Sonnen launched its Puerto Rico Energy Security Initiative (PRESI) with the specific aim to restore power to a number of communities around the island nation with microgrid technology.
While the world focused on how many Model 3 cars Tesla didn’t manufacture in the third quarter, the real news was how the company is ramping up its energy generation and storage products.
The most popular CleanTechnica articles in October were led by energy storage and electric vehicle shockers combined with EV market research, hurricane disaster responses, and Tesla, Tesla, Tesla news. From 509 articles we published last month, check out the top 30 stories of the month below for more details.
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The BMW Battery Storage Farm Leipzig has now been officially commissioned, with the second-life BMW i3 battery storage facility now slated to provide storage capacity to local wind energy generation, and also grid balancing capability.
The 2018 ZFEP finalists in the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), Nonprofit categories, and Global High Schools categories have just been announced.