NREL To Collaborate With Eight Teams on Innovations To Unlock Equitable Solar in Underserved Communities

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:19:29 +0000

Teams Will Receive Direct Funding and More Than a Year of Technical Support as They Explore New Forms of Equitable Solar Adoption in Residential and Commercial-Scale Settings Solar energy is taking off in the United States. The U.S. Energy Information Agency projects that solar power will account for nearly half of all new electricity-generating capacity in 2022. […]

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20 Utah Communities Committed To 100% Renewable Energy In 2019

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 12:10:52 +0000

Utah Communities Take Advantage of New Bill to Pave the Way to a Clean Energy Future

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Electric Vehicles Take Center Stage At Solar Power International 2019

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:46:25 +0000

At Solar Power International in Salt Lake City, Utah this year, one of the key themes was the integration of electric vehicle charging infrastructure into the fold of the solar-powered smart home

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The Span Panel Puts Control Into The Hands Of Homeowners

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 17:25:06 +0000

We talked to the folks at Span about the launch of the Span Panel last week, then jumped on a plane to Solar Power International 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah to experience it first-hand. We found that not only did it look far better in person, it had way more tricks up its sleeves than the initial launch let on. We’re back again to unpack the home-changing Span Panel with all of its exciting features we learned about at SPI and to talk through a few risks that come along with it

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

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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Generac Pivots From Generators Into Residential Energy Storage & Solar At #SPI2019

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:21:17 +0000

We connected with Generac’s Chief Marketing Officer and president of its new clean energy business, Russ Minick, at SPI 2019, to talk about its big pivot into energy storage products to learn more about where that strategy came from. Right off the bat, Russ said that Generac had been eyeing the residential energy storage market for quite some time, but until recently, felt that, “it wasn’t worth the diversion of focus.”

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SunFlare Tapped To Supply Lightweight, Flexible Solar Panels For Israeli Landfill Installation

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:30:28 +0000

CleanTechnica met up with SunFlare Solar’s Chief Marketing Officer Elizabeth Sanderson, and Vice President of Commercial Business Development, Joshua Held at the 2019 Solar Power International in Salt Lake City, Utah to get the update on an exciting new 40 megawatt solar installation the firm has been tapped for

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@SPI2019: Storage Plus EV Charging Leads Innovations

Credit to Author: Charles W. Thurston| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:10:57 +0000

Power Electronics new EV Charging Station. Credit Charles ThurstonThe Solar Power International trade show is the largest in the country, and this year was dominated by new entrants in the solar+EV storage category amidst many other ingenious technological advancements in the industry. As such, energy storage represents the plus in the solar+ label, and additional developments like EV charging represent what the industry is now calling Solar++

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The POWER Interview: SEPA’s Julia Hamm Talks Solar Pathways

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:03:46 +0000

The post The POWER Interview: SEPA’s Julia Hamm Talks Solar Pathways appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) is meeting this week in Salt Lake City, Utah, joining with the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) to present North America Smart Energy Week, which this year includes both the long-running Solar Power International gathering along with Energy Storage International. A big theme this week is the integration of […]

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

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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