Recently, OutBack Power™ released an AC coupling firmware update to its SkyBox™ hybrid inverter. AC coupling is ideal when users have an existing solar PV system and want to add batteries for backup and time-of-use energy management.
As reported earlier today, Tesla has nearly acquired Maxwell Technologies, a San Diego–based energy storage products and research business, for $218 million, with the transaction expected to complete in Q2 2019. Is this a stationary storage play or an EV play for Tesla … or both?
Ron Corio, the founder and chief innovation officer at Array Technologies, has been named a Lifetime Achiever within the 2018 S&P Global Platts Global Energy Awards. In a black tie affair, Corio, who has built and delivered 25 gigawatt-years of solar tracker generation to sites around the world, was honored Dec. 6 in New York as a godfather of the solar tracker industry.
As governments are focusing increasingly on industrial growth strategies, offshore wind is becoming a double win for policymakers, says Ray Thompson, Head of Business Development at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy.
Designing new solar farms has gone hi-tech. It now uses drones to map the area and advanced computer modeling to orient the solar panels correctly and squeeze as many of them as possible into the available space.
Originally published on RenewEconomy. A ground-breaking study involving leading utilities and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency has suggested that Australia’s largest battery storage array could be installed at a South Australian wind farm. The study – Energy Storage for Commercial Renewable Integration in South Australia (ESCRI-SA) – looks at a range … [continued]
Editor’s note: I just flew to India to present at an institutional investment conference on the topic of disruptive innovation, so it was interesting/serendipitous that I edited two great, original, India-focused articles on the flight here. This one is on the complicated and important off-grid solar market. Kartikeya Singh, who has … [continued]
The noted flexible thin-film photovoltaic cell manufacturer Ascent Solar Technologies recently won a contract from Vanguard Space Technologies for the provision of said solar cells to be used in two Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) programs. These flexible, lightweight, thin-film solar cells will be used, along with proprietary space environment protection technology … [continued]
RMI Outlet By Laurie Guevara-Stone If I told you about a place where almost 40 percent of the people live without electricity, over 90 percent live below the poverty line, and the unemployment rate exceeds 80 percent, you might be picturing a rural village in Africa or some other developing … [continued]
Giving new meaning to the Cold War era phrase “global superpower,” the U.S. Army has just flipped the ceremonial switch on its new White Sands Missile Range Solar Power System in New Mexico, which is not only the Army’s largest solar installation to date but also the largest of its … [continued]
