Originally published on SolarLove. During the Q2 earnings call for SolarCity, Elon Musk and Peter Rive laid out their vision for the future as Tesla and SolarCity combine forces. In his remarks, Musk told the analysts and investors on hand that demand for electrical power will double or triple, as … [continued]
Editor’s Note: A couple of years ago, when I created a list of 17 top cleantech champions, I actually put both Jigar Shah (author of this piece) and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a tie at #1. Jigar has a wealth of knowledge from the solar industry, as well as … [continued]
Update: I think I buried the takeaway points a bit too far down below the industry background and definitions, so I’m bumping this summary up to the top (so you can understand the problem before reading more details on what leads to the problem and potential solutions): 1. Wholesale electricity is sold to the grid on spot … [continued]
Together, global smart grid, battery and storage, and energy efficiency companies raised a total of $433 million in financing during the second quarter of 2016, according to global clean energy consulting firm Mercom. Mercom Capital Group released its funding and mergers & acquisition activity report for the Smart Grid, Battery/Storage, … [continued]
Originally published on ilsr.org. In 2014, Chris Villarreal helped write the white paper, Microgrids: A Regulatory Perspective. As a regulatory analyst with the California Public Utilities Commission, he outlined the regulatory questions of microgrid development at a time when the state was mulling over how to allow more distributed, renewable energy … [continued]
The energy intelligence software and demand response solutions firm EnerNOC has announced that the London Underground has agreed to join the firm’s demand response network, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica. The inclusion means that the London Underground will now be taking part in demand-response programs that pay electricity … [continued]
PG&E, one of the largest natural gas and electric utilities in the US, has announced three partnerships to test distributed energy resource technologies. PG&E is teaming up with GE to demonstrate a distributed energy resource management system, with Enphase Energy to install and test smart inverters, and SolarCity to install … [continued]
Transitions Now was founded by Jan-Willem Heinen with a very simple goal that is summed up on its homepage: “we build cleantech companies.” After a bit of research into Transitions Now and the companies operating within, I had seen enough to want to dig in a bit further, and seeing as how … [continued]
A previous CleanTechnica article reviewed the basics of power generation. That article is a good primer for this follow-up article delving deeper into the subject. How do we most efficiently integrate the maximum amount of renewables into the grid? Let’s start with understanding how things work. As first-order simplification, we … [continued]
The recent, massive Aliso Canyon natural gas leak led directly to the shutdown of the regionally important facility. In order to deal with the energy shortfall accompanying that shutdown (and stave off potential blackouts next summer), the state is reportedly pursuing a number of different strategies — including an energy … [continued]
