Tag: Span
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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……
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Span’s Smart Panel has an Alexa integration, $20M in new funding and a vision for home energy service providers
Span launched and started shipping its smart electrical panel last year – a reinvention of an old, basic concept to better serve today’s connected, electrified, renewably powered homes. Maybe more impressive than the technology is the amount of excitement they’ve generated at the same time, coming out of the gateRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar + Whatever: Different ways installers can provide home energy resilience
It only takes one hurricane, tornado or wildfire for the value of a resilient home energy system to sink in. Add to such increasing natural disasters the unpopular new utility practice in California of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) — a preemptive shut down of swaths of the grid toRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Panasonic bolsters EverVolt battery system by pairing with Span’s Smart Panel
Panasonic today announced a new strategic alliance with smart panel innovator Span, maker of the Span Smart Panel. You may remember it from this article in May: “Span raises $10.2 million in quest to reinvent the home electrical panel.” When paired with EverVolt, Panasonic’s residential home energy storage solution, consumers gain more controlRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Span raises $10.2 million in quest to reinvent the home electrical panel
While homes today are plugging in an assortment of connected devices, appliances, electronics and energy upgrades such as solar panels, batteries, and EV chargers, the standard electrical panel hasn’t been improved in nearly a century. Span is one strong contender looking to change that. Led by executives and lead engineersRead More — Solar Builder magazine