Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:40:29 +0000
Virtual power plants can help us use electricity more wisely and reduce the need for expensive new generating resources.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:26:32 +0000
If you own or lease a Ford electric vehicle, you can now get paid to support the electricity grid in Southern California, and you don’t even need vehicle-to-grid technology. This is specifically in the Southern California Edison utility district, and it is initially only an option for Ford EV owners … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 02:29:43 +0000
In addition to our electric vehicle news roundup, here’s a new roundup on clean energy and energy storage stories. From solar roofs to EV battery reuse for stationary storage in Spain to community solar and virtual power plants — there’s a lot to share. Read on for all the fun! … [continued]
The post Timberline Solar Roof, EV Battery Reuse in Madrid, 1000 Illuminators Jobs — Clean News Roundup appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:35:12 +0000
Sunrun and Ford are running a potentially game-changing first of its kind vehicle-to-home energy storage experiment this summer, leveraging the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sally Jacquemin| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:55:56 +0000
Most people, when they imagine a power plant, picture equipment like smokestacks that stretch hundreds of feet into the sky, massive, spinning turbines and the hum of electric transmission lines […]
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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 20:14:27 +0000
Base Power supplies residential storage batteries at ridiculously low cost. Is its virtual power plant model sustainable?
The post Base Power Will Install A Residential Storage Battery For $2,000. What’s The Catch? appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 14:44:50 +0000
California seems to be on a mission to destroy the market for virtual power plants and please the investors of major utility companies.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 04:57:42 +0000
Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. With the … [continued]
The post Balancing Renewables Requires Big Grid Storage, But What Kinds? (India Seminar Slides & Transcript) appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Press Release| Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 13:18:03 +0000
Sunrun creates the country’s largest virtual power plant to participate in statewide program designed to strengthen California’s stressed electrical grid and reduce blackouts by providing load generation during extreme events
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:06:02 +0000
A Vermont utility has filed a plan with state regulators that would enable the power company to offer more customers battery energy storage to keep the lights on during outages. […]
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