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Tesla Powerwall 2 Arrives Just In Time As Power Cuts Worsen In South Africa

December 17, 2019 admin africa, batteries, clean power, Coal, consumer technology, demand response, Energy Storage, eskom, Fossil Fuels, grid, grid storage, home energy management, lithium-ion batteries, microgrids, Off The Grid, policy & politics, rooftop solar, Smart Grid, Solar energy, South Africa, tesla, tesla powerwall, tesla powerwall 2.0, tesla south africa, the powerwall, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:05:12 +0000

On the 9th of this month, for the first time ever, Eskom, South Africa’s national power utility company, implemented Stage 6 Load shedding in which Eskom had to shed a load of 6000 MW to stabilise the grid. South Africa’s current installed capacity is 49.4 GW, according to the Draft Integrated Recourse Plan (2018) from South Africa’s Department of Energy

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Prediction: Tesla Cybertruck Will Have 1 Million-Mile Battery

December 11, 2019 admin batteries, clean transport, consumer technology, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, home energy management, jeff dahn, lithium-ion batteries, research, SCIENCE, tesla, tesla batteries, tesla cybertruck

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 20:18:04 +0000

Reddit user OompaOrangeFace has shared a prediction regarding the Tesla Cybertruck that may appeal to readers here. The prediction is that the Cybertruck will have a 1 million-mile battery plus power train warranty and a 20-year corrosion warranty for the body of the truck. This would be a key selling point for the indecisive buyer who is on the edge of purchasing one but considering hitting the “Place Order” button

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Tesla Powerwall Battery Wins Japan’s Smart Energy Excellence Award

November 30, 2019 admin batteries, clean power, consumer technology, Energy Storage, home energy management, Japan, lithium-ion batteries, tesla energy, tesla powerwall

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 03:28:27 +0000

Tesla’s Powerwall battery has won Japan’s Smart Energy Excellence Award. This is just one more award in Tesla’s vast and growing collection — a collection that needs to be celebrated by not only Tesla fans, owners, and shareholders, but by everyone

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Keeping Up With The Joneses, Energy Conservation Edition — CleanTechnica Interview

November 9, 2019 admin clean power, consumer technology, Electricity, energy efficiency, home energy management, portland general electric

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 23:30:40 +0000

Energy conservation peels itself off the wall and takes center stage in effort to maximize the carbon savings from renewable energy projects

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Keeping Up With The Joneses, Energy Conservation Edition (#CleanTechnica Exclusive Interview)

November 9, 2019 admin clean power, consumer technology, Electricity, Energy, energy efficiency, home energy management, portland general electric

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 23:30:40 +0000

Energy conservation peels itself off the wall and takes center stage in effort to maximize the carbon savings from renewable energy projects

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SolarEdge Has Built The First Framework For The End-To-End Smart Home

November 5, 2019 admin batteries, clean power, clean transport, consumer technology, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, grid scale solar, grid scale wind, home energy management, inverters, lior handelsman, lithium-ion batteries, Smart Grid, smart home, Solar, Solar energy, solar ev charger, solar power international, solaredge, spi 2019, Taiwan

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:52:42 +0000

SolarEdge was one of the early leaders in the solar inverter space and is now leveraging its mastery of the inverter to build out a comprehensive new plan for the smart home of the future

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Sense Analysis Highlights Benefits Of Home Energy Management (CleanTechnica Exclusive)

November 5, 2019 admin automation, buildings, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, demand response, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, ev charging, grid, home energy management, INTERVIEWS, mike phillips, rooftop solar, sense, sense home energy monitor, smart home, smartphone apps, Solar energy

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:14:17 +0000

Installing a rooftop solar system on your home might feel like the best way to fully offset the electricity usage of the home, but new analysis from the home energy monitoring experts at Sense reveals that might not always be the case. Before we dive in, let’s talk a bit about Sense. The team at [&hellip

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Utility Adds 2.5 MW Of Demand Response Capabilities With Very Unusual “Batteries”

November 2, 2019 admin buildings, clean power, climate change, consumer technology, demand response, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, grid, grid services, Hawaii, home energy management, peak demand, shifted energy, Smart Grid, Solar energy, virtual power plants

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:00:52 +0000

Hawaiian Electric (HECO) recently added 2.5MW of grid services to its grid, allowing it to store energy during peak solar and wind production periods, and did so without any traditional batteries, flywheels, or pumped hydro. Even better, the hardware required is very minimal, and in fact, most of it already exists in every residential grid in the world

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Heat (The Elephant In The Room)

October 30, 2019 admin Amazon, buildings, clean power, climate change, co2 emissions, data centers, dublin ireland, energy efficiency, Europe, Facebook, Fossil Fuels, google, grid, heating emissions, home energy management, home heating, microsoft, policy & politics, research, SCIENCE, United States

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:53:44 +0000

I came across a very interesting statistic the other day from the IEA’s Renewables 2018 report. The statistic is that 50% of total energy consumption globally is used for the production of heat for our homes, industry, and other applications

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Solar+Storage Killer App From DR Microgrid (#CleanTechnica Exclusive)

October 16, 2019 admin batteries, buildings, California, carbontrack, clean power, cleantechnica exclusive, demand response, dr microgrid, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, events, GERMANY, home energy management, INTERVIEWS, investment, lithium iron phosphate, lithium-ion, lithium-ion batteries, lockheed martin energy, microgrids, naak, NEW ZEALAND, pace, Solar energy, sonnen, sonoma county

Credit to Author: Charles W. Thurston| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:22:40 +0000

One of the stealth technologies that was unveiled at the recent Solar Power International trade show in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago is the plug-and-play solar+storage+nanogrid solution from start-up DR Microgrid, of Santa Ana, CA. It looks like a killer app because it is the only other system of its kind on the US market except that of Sonnen, which is more expensive, says DR Microgrid President AJ Perkins