Sunrun, a home solar, battery storage and energy services company, and regional utility Southern California Edison SCE are working together to launch one of the first residential energy storage virtual power plants in operation in the United States. Beginning this month and continuing through mid-2021, Sunrun and SCE will network Read more…
Panasonic has entered a new strategic alliance with Span to deliver a combined energy storage and management offering that will give homeowners a new level of control over their battery backup power with intuitive energy management for the entire home.Panasonic EverVolt Span is a smart panel innovator and maker of the Span Read more…
KORE Power today announced that its initial shipment of pre-production Mark 1 modules are now in transit to customers for integration testing in their stationary energy storage applications. Additional Mark 1 modules are being shipped to an independent lab for confirmatory testing for prospective customers. “After successful beta product testing earlier Read more…
Small amounts of electricity generated by residential PV systems can be easily fed into the local utility grid. Transformer capacity, appropriate grounding and system protection are obligatory, as otherwise the grid itself would be affected. The situation changes if the solar PV-generated electricity is beyond the limit of what an Read more…
Depending on utility metering, the electricity bill shows how much electricity the owner obtains from the grid and how much electricity the solar system delivers to the grid. There is no detailed information about energy production of the solar PV system. To determine the overall energy production and behaviour of Read more…
Power generation, plant performance and, hence, project cash flow do not depend only on the chosen equipment. The main factors discussed in this section are:» system design: loss parameters, DC-to-AC ratio, monitoring and control system» maintenance: response times, scope of work aligned to local conditions, cleaning cycles» demand-driven generation versus Read more…
More recently, solar PPAs have been observed in the market for SHSs, where developers take care of design, permitting, financing, installation and operation of an SHS at the customer’s rooftop or nearby plot, at little or even no cost for the customer. The developer then sells the solar PV electricity Read more…
Following the Paris Club Agreement, India took up an ambitious plan of adding 175 GW of renewable power. Of this, solar energy (100 GW) comprises a major part of 175 GW target followed by wind (60 GW), biomass (10 GW) and small hydroelectric (5 GW). The target of 100 GW Read more…
The year 2017 saw a dip in investments flowing into the Indian RE sector shown below figure. From a total of USD 13.7 billion investments made in 2016, there was a 20% drop to about USD 10.9 billion investment flow in the year 201711. Out of this, the solar and Read more…
Solar parks were designed to reduce the bottlenecks and bring down the cost of large- scale solar development. Developers pay for multiple heads of land development charges like land application fees (non-refundable one time), upfront development fee, annual leases of land, annual operation and maintenance charge, stamp duties for registration Read more…