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SolarCity and Tesla Package First Solar-Storage PPA To Deliver Solar Energy On Demand in Kaua’i
SolarCity announced it had chosen sister company Tesla's Powerpack to provide 52MWh of energy storage for what's billed as the U.S.' first utility-scale solar PV-energy storage ...
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Over 5 Million Smart Electric Meters To Be Rolled Out By Con Edison, Orange & Rockland Utilities
New York regulated utilities Con Edison and O&R Utilities have decided to run with Silver Springs Networks' smart grid communications-computing platform, which is to be ...
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Why Low Energy Prices Rarely Reach Electric Consumers
Low Natural Gas Prices Would Be Comparable To The 2nd Biggest Stimulus Package Ever, Had They Benefited Electric Ratepayers After peaking in 2008, the collapse of natural gas ...
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GE Berlin Hybrid Power Plant Combines CHP, Solar and Smart Battery Storage
Along with solar PV and intelligent energy storage technology, combined heat and power (CHP) takes center stage in a Hyrbrid Power Plant GE has built to power its facility, ...
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Solar Microgrids Could Yield Substantial Savings at City-wide Scale
Researchers from MIT, Italian and Saudi universities modeled installation and use of 20 microgrids with residential solar penetration of 0% and 20% in MIT's hometown of Cambridge, ...
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Austin Readies Launch of 2 SHINES Solar-Storage Pilot Projects
Austin Energy's SHINES pilot projects are to pave the way toward a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of $0.14/kWh for solar PV systems that employ advanced Li-ion battery-based ...
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Energy Efficiency Financing More than Doubles in 2015
Corporate funding in the energy efficiency sector more than doubled to nearly $1.2 billion in 2015, with debt and public market financing accounting for nearly 60% of total ...
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Ericsson Unveils ¨Smart Metering as a Service¨ at CES 2016
Highly reliable, secure broadband network connectivity and automated machine-to-machine communications (M2M) – aka Internet of Things (IoT) – lie at the core of the growing number ...
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Microgrid System Laboratory Partners To Include NREL, DOE, Clean Coalition, Duke Energy and others
Most existing microgrids are inefficient, poorly optimized, and overwhelmingly diesel-powered. The newly formed Microgrid System Laboratory in Santa Fe, New Mexico is hoping to ...
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U.K.’s First C&I Automated Demand Response Program Launched by Honeywell, Pearlstone
The advent of automated demand response (ADR) technology is enabling owners of commercial and industrial (C&I) facilities to earn revenues and reduce their energy bills by ...
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- The Water Energy Barrel SaunaThe traditional Finnish sauna is a water/energy phenomenon. By using wood (traditionally) or rocks to heat volcanic rocks, water can be splashed on the rocks to create steam. This steam is naturally circulated around the sauna, especially if you’re fortunate enough to be in a barrel sauna. The sauna is the perfect representation of heat/energy […]
- Solar Startup Harnesses the Power of the Sun and the Mighty ZambesiAfrican renewable energy startup Muhanya Solar Ltd. is building a solar-powered microgrid that will deliver affordable, reliable, emissions-free electricity to 60 families in Sinda, a village in eastern Zambia. In southern Zambia, SuperRich Energies Ltd is harnessing solar energy and the power of the mighty Zambesi River to build the first of a planned 12 […]
- How Sodium Acetate Reusable Hand Warmers WorkHand warmers are now much more environmentally friendly, and warmer than ever thanks to reusable hand warmer technology, but how do they work? Reusable hand warmers take advantage of the physics of phase change between solid and liquid states to release heat energy on demand. BUY REUSABLE HAND WARMERS ON AMAZON HERE Are reusable hand warmers toxic? […]