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Can Solar and Batteries Outlast an Extended Power Outage?

Can Solar and Batteries Outlast an Extended Power ...

It depends, experts say. Just expect to make a few sacrifices. Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean-energy customers in California’s Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one. Karin works as a postdoctoral researcher in the energy storage and distributed resources division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Last year, he chose to add solar and storage to his home, first buying an array of...
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Solar-plus-storage projects spreading across the U.S.

Solar-plus-storage projects spreading across the U...

A new wave of solar farm development, pairing solar photovoltaics with battery storage, is accelerating across the United States, most notably in California, Hawaii, Florida and the Northeast. Roughly 40 such systems were in operation in the U.S. as of late September, combining about 533 MW of storage with 1,242 MW of solar capacity. Meanwhile, companies are developing at least another 85 co-located solar and storage...
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An Unusual Plan for Lowering Solar’s Customer Acquisition Costs: Infomercials

An Unusual Plan for Lowering Solar’s Customer Acqu...

Recent solar and storage entrant Generac believes it can generate sales leads on the cheap through the old-fashioned TV ad. “No one has unleashed the power of TV on the space,” says Generac’s Russ Minick. SALT LAKE CITY — Generac Power Systems, a Fortune 1000 company that sells residential backup power generators, is making a play for the residential solar and storage market. This spring the Wisconsin-based...
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Electric vehicle companies considering engineering hub in the Valley

Electric vehicle companies considering engineering...

CEO working with groups on site selection; Lordstown group sticks to ambitious timetable WARREN — Lordstown Motors Corp.’s CEO Steve Burns is sticking to an ambitious timeline to launch the company’s battery-powered electric pickup truck in late 2020 should the tech startup buy the idled General Motors assembly plant. And if he’s successful, Burns said expect to see prototypes of the yet-to-be-named pickup on local roads by...
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Get on the road to a solar solution!

Get on the road to a solar solution!

The 2019 Green Energy Ohio — Licking County Solar Tour will take place Friday and Saturday, September 27th and 28th at various photovoltaic solar installations throughout the county. Installations range in size from a residential 2.4 kilowatts to a utility scale 2.3 megawatts. All twelve sites are open FREE to the public at the hours designated on the Green Energy Ohio website: https://greenenergyohiotour.org/, which also...
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A 100% renewable grid isn’t just feasible, it’s in the works in Europe

A 100% renewable grid isn’t just feasible, it’s in...

Europe will be 90% renewable powered in two decades, experts say. The myth that a very high level of renewables can’t be integrated into the electric grid is being demolished by the clean tech and battery storage revolution. “By 2040, renewables make up 90% of the electricity mix in Europe, with wind and solar accounting for 80%,” predict the experts at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) in their annual energy outlook...
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Electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries can drive growth in rooftop solar

Electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries can drive gr...

Falling battery and EV costs with equal grid market access can accelerate transition to renewables: lessons from UK and Germany (LONDON) – The falling costs of batteries and electric vehicles can help drive the next phase of growth in renewables including rooftop solar power, provided small-scale renewables and storage have the same access to electricity and grid services markets as conventional power plants, according to a...
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10 Mistakes I’ve Made Selling and Installing Battery Storage Systems

10 Mistakes I’ve Made Selling and Installing Batte...

The CEO of Silicon Valley’s Cinnamon Energy Systems boils down his biggest lessons from the residential battery business—from buggy software and interconnection delays to understanding customers’ emotions. In many regards, batteries are safer to install than rooftop solar, the author says. Upcoming electric rate changes in parts of the U.S. mean that almost every home and business here will eventually benefit from a battery...
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Ohio approves two huge solar projects

Ohio approves two huge solar projects

Ohio Power Siting Board has approved 470 MWac of solar and 60 MWac of batteries in two separate projects, as another confirmation of the coming boom in the state and the Midwest. The Midwest is getting ready for a major boom in large-scale solar, as evidenced by the activity in interconnection queues of the region’s grid operators. Today, two more very large solar projects got the green light by the state of Ohio, which is...
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Old batteries could play big role in greening grid — study

Old batteries could play big role in greening grid...

ELECTRIC VEHICLES David Iaconangelo, E&E News reporter Published: Monday, May 6, 2019 The next decade could see a market emerge for recycled electric-vehicle batteries, according to a new report. A battery pack inside a Nissan Leaf is shown. Tennen-Gas/Wikipedia Old electric vehicle batteries could become a key form of storage for utilities by the end of the next decade, boosting the power sector’s transition to...
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Batteries for Solar Energy Storage: From Old Standards to New Breakthroughs

Batteries for Solar Energy Storage: From Old Stand...

Batteries for Solar Energy Storage: From Old Standards to New Breakthroughs Batteries are becoming critically important to residential solar panel systems. Battery systems protect against power outages, provide economic protection to changes in state net metering policies, and increase the personal satisfaction of independence that comes from living “off the grid.” The addition of a battery storage system provides solar...
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Generac enters energy storage market with latest acquisition

Generac enters energy storage market with latest a...

STORAGE: Wisconsin-based power generator manufacturer Generac enters the energy storage market with the acquisition of a Maine company. (Milwaukee Business Journal) WAUKESHA, Wis., April 29, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNRC) (“Generac” or the “Company”), a global leader in the design and manufacture of a wide range of residential, commercial and industrial power products, announced today the...
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House Democrats roll out energy storage tax credit while pushing broader clean energy incentives

House Democrats roll out energy storage tax credit...

Dive Brief: Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., on Thursday introduced legislation long awaited by clean energy advocates: a tax credit for energy storage technologies. H.R. 2096 aims to make energy storage technologies fully eligible for the investment tax credit (ITC) that is currently available to solar and some solar-plus-storage projects. The solar ITC is set to phase down from 30% in 2019 to 26% for projects that start in 2020,...
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Batteries are key to clean energy — and they just got much cheaper

Batteries are key to clean energy — and they just ...

Batteries are critical for our clean energy future. Luckily, their cost has dropped so low, we might be much closer to this future than we previously thought. In a little less than a year, the cost of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by 35 percent, according to a new Bloomberg New Energy Finance report. Cheaper batteries mean we can store more solar and wind power even when the sun isn’t shining or wind isn’t blowing. This...
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Battery Power’s Latest Plunge in Costs Threatens Coal, Gas

Battery Power’s Latest Plunge in Costs Threatens C...

London and New York, March 26, 2019 – Two technologies that were immature and expensive only a few years ago but are now at the center of the unfolding low-carbon energy transition have seen spectacular gains in cost-competitiveness in the last year. The latest analysis by research company BloombergNEF (BNEF) shows that the benchmark levelized cost of electricity,[1] or LCOE, for lithium-ion batteries has fallen 35% to $187...
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