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These 9 home batteries will help you save tons of money on your energy bill

Sunverge comes with a corresponding app so you can monitor your solar energy storage and see electric grid costs at different times. A Sunverge unit can cost between $8,000 and $20,000, depending on the size you get.

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As SoCal blackout threat hits home, a solution is available: Guest commenta[...]

In October, a massive leak erupted at the Southern California Gas Co.’s Aliso Canyon storage facility, the state’s largest reservoir of natural gas, which provides fuel to 52 electric power plants supplying power to millions of homes and businesses.

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New York wants to put a virtual power plant on 300 rooftops

The utility Con Edison announced on Monday that it’s offering solar panels and batteries to 300 homes in Brooklyn and Queens so it can create a virtual power plant for New York’s grid.

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Virtual Power Plants Get Around Solar Power’s Intermittency Problem

Using software to unify solar panels and battery storage creates a single, flexible resource that utilities can use to supply the grid.

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Haleakala Solar and Hitachi Advanced Clean Energy Corporation bring advance[...]

To serve the present need for advanced utility grid solutions, Haleakala Solar has developed its core business to include electrical construction services for Smart Grid and Demand Response systems.

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The Growing Opportunity for Residential Energy Storage in the US

The first quarter of 2016 saw 18.3 megawatts of grid-interactive energy storage installed in the U.S., up 127 percent year-over-year and marking the largest first quarter in the history of the nation’s energy storage market.

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The Morphing Role Of The Electric Utility: Investors In The Change To Come

Electricity sales have declined in five of the past eight years. It’s not just solar, though. Efficient end use technologies, such as LED lighting and better HVAC systems further cut waste.

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Can Battery Storage Recharge Australian Utilities?

The distributed energy storage market is accelerating in Australia. Utilities there are exploring ways to ride the trend in order to avoid losing revenue to load defection as growing numbers of households begin to self-supply more of their own energy.

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