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Tag: storage

  • FYI: Texas-based CPS Energy is prepping for some big renewable energy RFPs

    CPS Energy, the largest municipally owned, fully-integrated electric and gas utility in the United States, is taking a significant step to diversify its generation portfolio and meet the energy demands of one of the fastest growing regions in the country. The San Antonio, Texas-based utility, is releasing a global RequestRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • NV Energy agrees to PPA with EDF Renewables for huge battery storage + solar project

    EDF Renewables North America signed a 22-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with NV Energy for a 200 MW solar photovoltaic project coupled with a 180 MW, four-hour battery storage system. The Chuckwalla Solar+Storage project expects to come online by the end of 2023 and deliver enough clean electricity annually to powerRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How the lack of a common interconnection rule affects solar installers, customers

    The inherent nature of energy storage systems (ESS) can become an issue at the time of interconnection in cases in which it is not classified under “generator.” Without this simple addition to the interconnection rules of the utility, longer and costlier procedures for the interconnection of an ESS may beRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Optimizing solar + storage for backup operation

    The interest in and adoption of residential storage in the US has grown at a healthy pace in the last few years. Guidance on how to size a system, particularly for AC coupled storage solutions, is a common request from installers with customers interested in adding storage. Few areas inRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How does SNMP compare to MODBUS?

    SNMP and MODBUS are both components of the application layer in the OSI model. Where MODBUS is a protocol that can be supported by different physical and data link layers, SNMP is exclusively an IP standard. Unlike MODBUS IP, which typically uses the TCP transport layer, SNMP data is usuallyRead More — Solar Builder magazine