Tag: commercial and industrial
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CEC approves virtual power plant program to tap distributed batteries statewide
The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved a new virtual power plant (VPP) program that will tap into thousands of solar-charged batteries — approximately 100,000 — located at homes and businesses throughout the state. This Demand Side Grid Support program allow fleets of customer-sited batteries to be remotely dispatched when demand for electricity is at its……
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In for the long haul: Charting the rise of long duration energy storage
The tech march of long duration energy storage (LDES) has successfully pushed the temporal envelope for usage into the double-digit hours range, securing LDES as an integral element of renewable energy system design. The challenge that remains is for LDES researchers and manufacturers to crunch costs enough that the technology will be more broadly adopted……
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Enact Home app adds ‘percent paid off’ calculation for solar, storage owners
Enact Systems launched an updated Enact Home app to provide both residential and commercial solar panel and storage owners with independent analysis and personalized insights to optimize their solar experience and return on investment. The app can be used with both existing solar panels and new systems installed by Enact. For systems designed on the……
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Jigar Shah, Bernadette Del Chiaro to keynote Aurora’s Empower event
Aurora Solar announced that Jigar Shah and Bernadette Del Chiaro will be the keynote speakers for the solar software vendor’s fourth annual Empower event. Shah and Del Chiaro will share how the solar community can best manage complexity and change during challenging economic events and turn it into an opportunity, as well as an outlook on California’s……
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SunOpta installs 742 solar panels to power Minnesota headquarters
Minnesota-based food and beverage company SunOpta wants more sun in its operations. The company has installed a new rooftop solar array at its U.S. headquarters and innovation center in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, which will provide up to two-thirds of SunOpta’s annual energy needs. SunOpta’s 742 solar panels, which occupy 36,000 square-feet of its roof, are……