Tag: Span

  • Meet the new SPAN smart home panel lineup

    Home energy management innovator SPAN is now offering a wider range of products at different price points and with more installation flexibility (and reduced installation costs). In addition to expanding its product family, SPAN also recently announced two partnerships with Landis+Gyr and PulteGroup to advance electrification in the utility and new home construction spaces. The……

  • Smarten up electric panels to avoid utility upgrades

    Increasingly, homeowners know that electrifying everything has advantages, from improving indoor air quality to cutting power bills to lowering a home’s carbon footprint. The wish list of electrical appliances includes induction stoves, EV chargers, hybrid water heaters, and electric heat pumps. Add to that the desire to improve resilience or gain energy independence by adding……

  • Bidirectional EV charging is a big deal, but is it ready to roll?

    When Ford unveiled the Lightning F150 in May of 2021, it revealed something fundamentally different: it was not just an EV, it was a battery on wheels. As someone who has sat through power outages with the equivalent of four Powerwalls-worth of batteries parked in my driveway, useless, Ford did what seems obvious now: it……

  • Powur adds SPAN panel and EV charger to platform

    Virtual residential solar company, Powur PBC keeps expanding the product portfolio available via its cloud-based platform, this week adding the smart electrical panel and EV charger from SPAN. By partnering with Powur, SPAN gains access to the largest national residential solar sales network to help more people reduce their energy costs. “Powur is passionate about……

  • Whole home storage? Back up. Let’s discuss load controls first

    This article originally appeared in the Q1 2023 edition of Solar Builder magazine. Be sure to get your own free print and/or digital subscription right here. When I first started working in the PV industry in the mid-2000s, the new sector of grid-tied PV installer actively avoided expensive and complicated lead acid battery systems that……