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 make rooftop solar more viable across the country and be an added revenue source for solar installers.
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
Battery power has the potential to transform the electricity industry – but that doesn’t mean energy storage is completely straightforward…As dawn broke on the first day of the 21st century, the fundamental issue the electricity industry had faced since its beginnings remained intact: despite some pioneering attempts to store hydro-electric generation there was no way
This is about Days 6 and 7 of owning a PowerBanx home battery, and a summary of the result of a week running our house with one. On Day 1 I explained how it charges up from our solar panels during the day and then empties during the evening to
That’s not what usually happens when you scale up mass production.
Transition Town Worthing has launched its fourth Eco Open Houses Worthing, in collaboration with Green Open Homes.
My experience on Day 1 with a PowerBanx home battery showed that it’s perfectly possible to run a house with using any grid electricity, i.e. for free. However, my experiences on Day 2 and Day 3 showed that it was quite hard to also charge an electric car for free
While using our PowerBanx home battery got us through Day 1 without paying for any electricity to run the house, attempting to also charge the car on Day 2 had meant that we had ending up using some mains electricity to get through the evening (about 60p worth).
My attempt to live without paying for electricity using a PowerBanx home battery worked well on Day 1 so I was optimistic going into Day 2. As we have seen, the day started with the battery still half full at midnight. The night-time loads were small so there was still