Hot: Tesla Powerwall To Get New Features, Higher Prices
Tesla has increased the prices of some of its energy products, including the popular Powerwall, to account for new features and hardware it has just added.
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The Climathon Challenges Problem Solvers To Tackle Climate Change, One City At A Time
The Climathon brings together the unique world climate change startups and the tech world phenomenon that is the hackathon into a 24-hour smash fest designed to rapidly vet and build climate change solutions in a single event.
How Innolith Plans To Step Up The Grid Energy Storage Game (CleanTechnica Interview)
A new low cost, long-duration energy storage system aims at leveraging more EV chargers, wind power, and solar power while fostering grid stability.
SCE Proposes 5 New Green Energy Programs To Replace Aging GTSR Program
Southern California Edison (SCE) has proposed 5 new Green Programs to the California Public Utilities Commission in an attempt to give customers options for directly tapping into and to support renewable electricity through their monthly electricity payments.
Tesla’s Battery In South Australia Breaks Stranglehold Of Natural Gas Industry
The massive 129 kWh Tesla Powerpack installation in South Australia has already been having a strong impact on the region’s electricity markets, saving grid operator Neoen and customers an estimated $25 million, or just over ⅓ of the purchase price, in its first year of operation.
eMotorWerks Puts EV Chargers To Work As 30 Megawatt Virtual Energy Storage Battery
Enel X’s eMotorWerks has successfully deployed a 30 megawatt / 70 megawatt-hour virtual energy storage battery load comprised of distributed electric vehicle charging loads on the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) markets. The new offering bundles together the electricity demand of thousands of plug-in vehicle drivers and pays drivers for … [continued]
ClimateLaunchpad Is Working To Change The World, One Startup At A Time
ClimateLaunchpad is an increasingly global competition that serves to vet and coach climate change focused startups in an effort to bring the best to the surface. The goal is to accelerate the pace at which new climate change focused innovations and startups grow up and ultimately, to provide a — wait for it — launchpad for them to take off from.
Updating California’s Anti-Solar Utility Billing For Transmission
California’s small solar owners pay for the transmission of electricity they don’t use, but relief is on the way.
Centrica Expands Its Solar Capacity Into California With Acquisition of Vista Solar
International energy storage giant Centrica has expanded its solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) footprint on the west coast of the US with the acquisition of Vista Solar. We spoke with Stephen Prince, head of Centrica Business Solutions for North America about why the acquisition of Vista Solar made sense for Centrica and what it hints at for the future.
ABB Is Building The Distributed, Resilient Grid Of The Future, One Business At A Time
ABB is known as one of the global leaders in electrical infrastructure, so when it starts talking about the digital transformation and the grid of the future, our ears perked up. We connected with the guy steering the ABB ship when it comes to leading the digital revolution, Rob Massoudi, about the transition that’s currently underway in grids around the world and pulled back the curtain on what the future grid might look like.
