Tag: Smart Grid

  • Smart grid, battery storage companies see big jump in funding to start 2017

    Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the Battery Storage, Smart Grid, and Energy Efficiency sectors for the first quarter of 2017. Smart Grid Venture capital (VC) funding (including private equity and corporateRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • PG&E proposes smart energy reform to support rooftop solar in California

    As utilities across the country get hip to the benefits of solar power, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) is an original early adopter and has interconnected more rooftop solar power than any utility in America. To further these goals, PG&E is proposing smart energy reform in support of sustainableRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SolarCity Joins the New York State Smart Grid Consortium

    The nation’s top rooftop solar power provider joins New York’s leading utilities, technology providers, policy makers and research institutions committed to grid modernization The New York State Smart Grid Consortium (NYSSGC), a public-private partnership devoted to statewide implementation of the smart grid, announced today that SolarCity, the nation’s number oneRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Electric Vehicles Enlisted For Military Base Grid Security

    An Army demonstration project at Fort Carson, Colo., will test using electric vehicles for energy storage to support a base microgrid. Thank you for your interest in this story. To read the rest of it, please visit EarthTechling.

  • Smart Meters Steadily Spread Across United States

    According to a report from the Institute for Electric Efficiency, one in three American housholds now have smart meters, a number set to jump by 2015. Thank you for your interest in this story. To read the rest of it, please visit EarthTechling. …