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Solar, Storage, & EV Charging: The Holy Trinity Of Home Energy Management At #SPI2019

October 9, 2019 admin 0 Comments 2019 solar power international, batteries, clean power, clean transport, community solar, concentrating solar power, demand response, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, evse, grid, grid storage, inverters, lithium-ion batteries, microgrids, rooftop solar, Salt Lake City, Smart Grid, smart home, solar cells, Solar energy, solar leasing, solar panels, solar power plants, solar prices, spi 2019, Utah, vehicle to grid, virtual power plants

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:26:18 +0000

Solar Power International landed in Salt Lake City, Utah this year and CleanTechnica was on the ground meeting with the change makers, the disruptors, the doers, the movers, and the shakers. We’ve been diving into some of the companies we talked with, but having covered SPI for several years now, we wanted to highlight one of the newer arrivals at the show: electric vehicles

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Why Minnesota’s Community Solar Program Is The Best

September 25, 2019 admin clean power, community solar, institute for local self reliance, john farrell, Minnesota, Solar energy

Credit to Author: John Farrell| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:05:03 +0000

Minnesota’s community solar program hit a record 613 megawatts of operational capacity in September 2019. The chart below shows the progress of projects through the program since August 2015, and the nearly two-year lag between the program launch in December 2014 and the successful ignition of multiple megawatts of capacity in January

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Community Solar Benefits Cooperatives and Customers

September 16, 2019 admin Business, community solar, distributed energy, distributed power, iiot, iiot power, landis+gyr, news, Renewables, rooftop solar, rural electric cooperatives, Solar, Solar power, Technology

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:24:02 +0000

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For some utilities, community solar is a way to offer consumers access to clean energy without requiring investment in rooftop solar. For others, it presents a means of strategically placing solar resources in the most beneficial locations. Meanwhile, many utilities view it as an opportunity to learn how best to integrate distributed energy resources (DERs). […]

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sonnen & Wasatch Group Launch Largest Residential Virtual Power Plant — 12.6 MWh

August 27, 2019 admin auric energy, batteries, blake richetta, clean power, community solar, dell loy hansen, demand response, Energy Storage, gary hoogeveen, grid, grid storage, herriman, lithium-ion batteries, rocky mountain power, rooftop solar, Salt Lake City, Solar energy, solar power international, soleil lofts, sonnen, sonnen ecolinx, spi 2019, Utah, virtual power plants, wasatch group

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:40:31 +0000

A new community of apartments in Herriman, Utah is being built from the ground up with a next generation energy storage system thanks to 12.6 megawatt-hours of sonnen’s ecoLinx battery systems. The new system will aggregate the energy storage and power output capabilities of 600 of sonnen’s 20 kWh ecoLinx intelligent energy storage units installed across the community into a single virtual power plant

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sonnen & Wasatch Group Launch Largest Residential Virtual Power Plant At 12.6 MWh

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:40:31 +0000

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FPL Plans to Build 1,500 MW of Solar in Next Two Years

March 15, 2019 admin community solar, Florida, florida power & light, news, Renewables, seia, Solar

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:10:31 +0000

Florida Power & Light (FPL) continues to add to its solar power portfolio, with the utility on March 13 announcing plans to build the largest community solar program in the U.S. Eric Silagy, FPL’s president and CEO, in a statement said, “We’ve been aggressively expanding solar with one goal in mind: bringing more solar to […]

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Community Solar Power Offers the ‘Best of Both Worlds’ [PODCAST]

January 26, 2019 admin Business, community solar, distributed energy, distributed power, laura stern, nautilus solar energy, news, podcast, power podcasts, Renewables, Solar, Solar power

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:26:24 +0000

Laura Stern, co-founder and president of Nautilus Solar Energy, was a guest on The POWER Podcast. Founded in 2006, Nautilus is a leading acquirer, developer, and operator of community solar projects. During the past five months, the company has acquired community solar projects in Minnesota, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, and Rhode Island. Community solar refers […]

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