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Tag: Batteries

  • SimpliPhi Power adds solar veteran as COO

    SimpliPhi Power continues to execute on its rapid expansion plans with the recent addition of Chris Beitel as chief operations officer. Beitel joins the SimpliPhi executive team after a noteworthy stay at SolarCity and prior to that, Applied Materials. Beitel will apply his extensive business commercialization expertise to scaling SimpliPhi’sRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • A commercial PV storage solution? Austin Energy, Ideal Power think so

    Ideal Power Inc. has partnered with Austin Energy in a federally funded research program as part of the “Sustainable and Holistic Integration of Energy Storage and Solar PV” (SHINES) program. The Austin Energy led projects are partially funded by a $4.3 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShotRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • ViZn Energy receives 128 kW battery system order from Idaho National Laboratory

    ViZn Energy Systems Inc., a provider of energy storage systems for microgrid and utility applications, received an order for a 128 kW/320 kWh redox flow battery system based on its zinc-iron chemistry from Idaho National Laboratory (INL), part of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) complex of national laboratories. ViZn’s flowRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Grid-scale storage BOS costs to decline 41 percent by 2020

    These days, grid-scale energy storage balance of system (BOS) costs average $670 per kilowatt. These costs include hardware like inverters and containers, soft costs like customer acquisition and interconnection, and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) expenses. According to the latest report from GTM Research, Grid-Scale Energy Storage Balance of SystemsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Inside Tabuchi’s storage plus inverter system

    You’ve likely not heard of Tabuchi, but you may have already installed one of its inverters. That’s because the Japanese electronics manufacturer has been producing inverters for a number of companies for close to 20 years — enough to be the No. 5 inverter manufacturer in the world. Anyway, ifRead More — Solar Builder magazine