Elon Musk is proposing adding building-integrated solar roofs to his arsenal of sustainable home energy appliances. Instead of an “aftermarket” attachment to an existing roof, like a solar array is today, he suggests actually making the roofing material itself generate solar power. “It’s not something on the roof — it … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath Less than six months after Australia received its first shipment of Tesla Powerwalls, plans for what could be the world’s first “Tesla town” – a mini-suburb on the outskirts of the Melbourne CBD whose new-build homes will include rooftop solar and Tesla battery … [continued]
LichtBlick, known in Germany as a retailer of ‘green electricity and green gas’, is looking to take its concept for integrating multiple distributed generation sources into a single network serving international markets, reports a recent PVTech article. This follows an announcement last May stating LichtBlick and electric vehicle and battery … [continued]
The Australian energy storage market is on the rise, as households turn to batteries to avoid ever increasing electricity tariffs. This is the major takeaway from a new report published by IHS, Energy Storage Intelligence Service, which has tracked the Australian energy storage market and found it has grown from less … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy Electric vehicle and battery storage developer Tesla Motors says it is receiving “very strong” demand for its new battery storage products in Australia, which are due to be rolled out in the next month or two. In its latest quarterly update, the company said it will … [continued]
The energy storage company SimpliPhi is leveraging its film and television experience to take on the Tesla Powerwall for home and light commercial markets.
Those living in New Zealand who want one of Tesla’s Powerwall energy storage battery pack offerings, but don’t want to spend the cash, may be happy to know that that there’s currently a giveaway underway that’s possibly worth a look. One of Tesla’s new sales partners for the energy storage offerings, Vector, … [continued]
Originally published on One Step Off The Grid. The competition in the nascent battery storage market continues to intensify, with South Korean appliance manufacturers LG Chem launching a new 6.4kWh battery storage system that approaches the key $1,000/kWh mark. The new battery storage system is being made available to consumers … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy The rapid roll-out of battery storage products into the Australian electricity market continues apace, with Japanese electronics giant Panasonic to announce its move into Australia next week. Panasonic is scheduled to announce its Australian plans with “some of” Australia’s leading energy Australian retailers on Tuesday in … [continued]
Australians now have access to some of the cheapest electricity in the industrialized world — but not because grid electricity rates are low. In fact, Australians pay a lot for the electricity that they purchase from their utilities (and are generally quite unhappy about this). Instead, as Hugh Bromley of Bloomberg … [continued]
