Free Solar Charging Your Electric Car
Today I’ve been charging my electric car (a BMW i3) for free using the solar panels on the roof of my house.
Residential energy storage market reaches record US highs in first quarter of 2018
According to the latest U.S. Energy Storage Monitor report, home energy storage system deployments reached record highs in the first quarter of 2018.The report, issued by GTM Research and the Energy Storage Association (ESA) earlier this week, concluded that 35.8 megawatt-hours (MWh) of grid-connected residential energy storage systems were deployed in the first three months
Residential energy storage grows 9x in Q1 2018
The 36 megawatt-hours of residential energy storage installed in the United States during Q1 is the latest in a year of accelerating growth rates, driven by policies in California and Hawaii.
Finance Now Available for Solar and Battery Systems
For many who want to move more quickly to renewable energy, the significant upfront cost of a solar or battery solution makes it challenging to make a start.
Fully Charged Live Event: The Tesla Dance
With thousands of others, I enjoyed the inaugural Fully Charged Live event at Silverstone last weekend.
Fuel Included at Fully Charged Live
As promised, we showed our faces at Fully Charged Live at Silverstone on Saturday. This was the first exhibition and conference launched by Robert Llewellyn off the back of his Fully Charged YouTube show, but I’m sure not the last.
1 Million Volts DC
Those of you of a certain age will remember the pre-historic epic “1 Million Years BC” starring Raquel Welch and containing some of the worst special effects of all time. I couldn’t resist echoing that title. More correctly I should call it 1.1 Million Volts DC, because this is the power transmission voltage for the
Companies are using California homes as batteries to power the grid
Every new home in California is going solar by 2020. If solar-energy companies have their way, those homes also will come with batteries.Companies like Tesla and SunRun are starting to bid on utility contracts that would allow them to string together dozens or hundreds of systems that act as an enormous reserve to balance the
Energy Storage Could Be Residential Solar’s Next Growth Product
Energy storage could make rooftop solar more viable across the country and be an added revenue source for solar installers.
Fully Charged Live Event
We’re going to be at the Fully Charged Live show this Saturday at Silverstone – and we’d love to see you there! I first met Robert Llewellyn (star of Red Dwarf and Scrapheap Challenge) 5 years ago when I gave him his first ride in a Renault ZOE, as I had one of the first in