Tag: storage

  • Attention preppers: Humless debuts GO 200 backpack-sized battery system

    In honor of National Preparedness Month, Humless announced a new GO 200 battery backup system — a 10″ x 7.72″ x 2.56″ backpack-sized system that’s ready for solar charging or from a wall outlet. This versatile six-pound power dynamo is perfect for camping or for quickly packing in a car.Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Liberty Utilities goes with BoxPower solar microgrid for wildfire mitigation, cost avoidance

    Liberty Utilities is going with a microgrid solution from BoxPower to power a remote mountain research station. The decision will save millions of dollars by replacing high fire-risk distribution lines with a containerized solar+storage microgrid. The project is the result of a request-for-offers issued by Liberty Utilities for a wildfire-mitigationRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Load management software DemandEx now integrates with microgrid controllers, reduces need to rewire

    Extensible Energy has released a version of its DemandEx load flexibility software for Microgrids — it will integrate with a microgrid controller to manage and optimize energy usage when off-grid or on-grid. With DemandEx for Microgrids, businesses can move beyond the traditional critical loads panel and utilize dynamic, intelligent softwareRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Electriq Power signs agreement with turnkey microgrid provider Emergent

    Electriq Power, a developer of intelligent and integrated home energy storage, management, and monitoring solutions, entered into a definitive agreement with Emergent Microgrid, a provider of turnkey microgrids with community-concentrated deployments in Santa Barbara and Montecito, California. Emergent Microgrid will bolster Electriq Power’s fleet of residential and small commercial batteryRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Vote for the 2020 Solar Builder Projects of the Year

    Solar Builder readers submitted their coolest, most innovative and noteworthy solar projects of the last 12 months, and after combing through another record amount of submissions, we’ve narrowed the field to these 2020 Project of the Year nominees! This year the field is divided into FIVE categories: Residential (single-family, multi-family)Read More — Solar Builder magazine