Inside a sunlit, cramped office near San Francisco’s financial district, entrepreneur and former political operative Susan Kennedy has been leading a team that is at the forefront of the emerging market… Read more »
When the huge solar farm just outside of Las Vegas called Ivanpah opened up in early 2014, many lamented that this type of solar plant, called solar thermal, could soon become… Read more »
State-by-state mandates have helped drive the deployment of renewable energy — namely solar and wind power. All of this deployment requires energy storage, and so the grid battery storage market is… Read more »
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) made news last fall when it became the first public utility commission in the U.S. to mandate energy storage. The commission is requiring the top… Read more »
SolarCity ticks off its many accomplishments in 2013 — including a pioneering move to sell notes backed by its solar projects — while it faces tougher competition from rivals who also… Read more »
Utilities are now rejecting net metering applications from customers with battery storage. The fight highlights the deep threat presented by declining solar panel prices and distributed power generation. Read more »
California is set to become a large energy storage market, and that has prompted bankers to figure out whether they could make money from it. Wells Fargo plans to get answers… Read more »
A German company has engineered a lithium-ion battery system with wireless communication to enable homeowners to manage their solar electricity generation and use and control appliances. Read more »
Pacific Gas & Electric unveils a 4MW battery system that it will use to investigate the value of using energy storage to manage its growing supply of renewable energy. Read more »