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Energy storage has dominated conversations among solar professionals and the energy industry for the last several years, and as traditional rules of Net Energy Metering slowly fade, energy storage is poised to become one of the most critical components to any renewable energy project.

Company expands its premium energy storage product line, project financing offering and operational footprint in 2020

Spectrum Autonomous energy grids use AI, renewable energy, and energy storage to optimize the gridIt’s great to have neighbors you can depend on, whether you’re borrowing a cup of sugar or you need someone to walk your dog while you’re out of town. In the western Colorado neighborhood of Basalt Vista, the residents are even closer than most: They share their electricity.

With an average of more than 8,000 wildfires per year between 2017 and 2020, with 2020 being the most destructive wildfire season yet, California ranks as the number one most wildfire-prone state in the U.S. As a result, more than one million Californians had their power shut off by their utility in 2020 as a preemptive measure to prevent further wildfires.

The impacts of the pandemic have been widespread. Massive declines in both employment and the production of goods have created an enormous setback in economic activity that led to an unfortunate, yet imminent, recession.

In his search for an effective long-term energy storage technology, Rogers gave vanadium flow batteries a try, leaving him with a number of 4-foot-cube tanks of vanadium redox electrolyte stranded on his ranch. They are available to a good home — make him an offer. Bring a trailer.Blue Planet Energy Systems is helmed by Tetris entrepreneur Henk Rogers and started as an off-grid project for the founder in Hawaii.

Rebuilding Puerto Rico after the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017 has remained a key initiative of Blue Planet Energy, and supplying reliable power has taken shape in many forms: including job training, disaster relief partnerships, and, most recently, equipment donations.Another group responding to the island’s energy crisis is the University of Wisconsin-Madison Puerto Rico chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-WM Puerto Rico). Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is a global organization dedicated to building a better, more sustainable world through socially and environmentally responsible engineering.

Interest in home microgrids is surging in California in response to wildfires and public safety power shutoffs (PSPS), with microgrid companies saying demand has jumped by as much as 1,000% in the last month.

‍Sandbar Electric warehouseLoad profile: When setting out to build its new corporate headquarters, Santa Cruz-based solar installer Sandbar Solar & Electric had a choice: Plan and pay for the costly, multi-year process of connecting to utility power, or equip the building to run independently from the grid. Interconnection to the local utility was estimated to cost around $75,000 and take 18 months to complete. Once connected, Sandbar Solar & Electric was looking at an average monthly electricity bill of about $1,000.Goal: Operate the Sandbar Solar & Electric headquarters independently from the utility grid and champion innovative renewable energy technologies.