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Generac Pivots From Generators Into Residential Energy Storage & Solar At #SPI2019

October 4, 2019 admin batteries, clean power, demand response, Energy Storage, generac, grid, grid parity, grid storage, lithium-ion batteries, Massachusetts, microgrids, neurio technology, Off The Grid, pika, pwrcell, pwrview, rooftop solar, russ minick, Salt Lake City, Smart Grid, Solar energy, spi2019, Utah, vancouver

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:21:17 +0000

We connected with Generac’s Chief Marketing Officer and president of its new clean energy business, Russ Minick, at SPI 2019, to talk about its big pivot into energy storage products to learn more about where that strategy came from. Right off the bat, Russ said that Generac had been eyeing the residential energy storage market for quite some time, but until recently, felt that, “it wasn’t worth the diversion of focus.”

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Bridging The Gap For Battery Storage: How M-Kopa Labs Is Pulling Academic Research Into The Off-Grid Solar Industry

August 31, 2019 admin batteries, clean power, cleantech news, cleantechnica, Energy Storage, grid, lithium-ion batteries, m-kopa, m-kopa labs, Off The Grid, Solar energy, solar panels

Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 11:00:14 +0000

Knowledge transfer between academia and industry has the potential to affect a lot of change for a small off-grid solar company like M-KOPA Solar, a Kenya-based company and 2015 recipient of the Zayed Future Energy Prize. This is why Harini Hewa Dewage joined M-KOPA Labs, the research branch of M-KOPA, in November of 2016 as its battery technology specialist