Standard Solar, a leader in developing, constructing, integrating, financing, and installing solar electric systems, in partnership with Solar Grid Storage, has announced the installation of a grid-interactive energy storage system with a new solar photovoltaic (PV) array, creating one of the nation’s first commercial scale micro-grids.
Stem, a provider of energy optimization combining cloud analytics and intelligent energy storage to reduce commercial building electricity costs, announced its first customer deployment at two InterContinental hotels in San Francisco.
IEEE has announced the availability of a new report detailing how energy storage, distributed generation, and microgrid technologies stand to evolve and grow given the rapid deployment of the smart grid across the globe over the next five years.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that 66 research projects have been selected by its Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to receive a total of $130 million in funding for their portential to develop breakthrough energy technology solutions.
During the peak solar load of the day, the phase change material embedded within the welded steel EcoCore panel is designed to melt and absorb energy — energy that would otherwise be reflected back into the room as heat or transferred to the airstream.
