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Tesla continues to invest heavily to realize its new distributed, clean energy vision, the centerpieces of which are its mammoth lithium-ion battery (LiB) and solar... Read more →
Tesla-SolarCity Swoops In On Nascent Island Microgrid Market
Islands have been considered prime candidates for renewable energy microgrids from market inception. To date, solar-storage and other types of distributed, hybrid systems have been... Read more →
A Solar-Plus-Storage Microgrid at a South Pacific Resort Collects SEANZ Award For PowerSmart
An off-grid 'solar-plus-storage' mini-grid at Six Senses, Fiji has garnered Power Smart the 'Best Solar PV Off-Grid Implementation' at the Sustainable Electricity Association of New Zealand (SEANZ)... Read more →
Postcard From the Future? Ta’u Island Ditches Diesel With Tesla-SolarCity Microgrid
In ‘Before The Flood,’ Elon Musk tells Leonardo DiCaprio that just 100 Gigafactories would be enough to move the entire …
Elon Musk Explains Why The Tesla-SolarCity Merger Is All About Microgrids
Tesla offered to buy SolarCity last week for $2.8 billion, causing confusion and criticism from some TESLA shareholders who saw the offer as a …
TESLA Makes Bid To Buy SolarCity To Become Vertically Integrated Clean Energy Company
TESLA made a surprise offer today to acquire SolarCity in an effort to become a vertically-integrated clean energy provider. Noting that their …
SolarCity and Tesla Package First Solar-Storage PPA To Deliver Solar Energy On Demand in Kaua’i
Solar energy, which is increasingly the cheapest source of electricity is now addressing its' Achilles heel by combining batteries that can discharge on demand. SolarCity and Tesla... Read more →
Austin Readies Launch of 2 SHINES Solar-Storage Pilot Projects
News of solar-plus-storage project launches funded via the SunShot SHINES (Sustainable and Holistic Integration of Energy Storage and Solar PV) program are emerging. The beneficiary... Read more →
Solar-Storage On the Rise in Europe as Solar Tax Credits And Feed-in Tariffs Fall
The declining costs of battery storage technologies (Li-ion in particular) and ratcheting down of solar tax credits and feed-in tariffs …
Veridian Microgrid To Combine Tesla Powerwall, EV Charging, and Solar Using Opus One Software
Veridian Connections announced this week they are rolling out a “virtual power plant,” with a new microgrid system. The southern Ontario utility …