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.
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
Expert view: Light on the charge brigade
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
PowerBanx: Living Without an Electricity Bill – Days 6 and 7 – First Week Summary
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
PowerBanx: Living Without an Electricity Bill – Day 5
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
PowerBanx: Living Without an Electricity Bill – Days 3 and 4
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).
PowerBanx: Living Without an Electricity Bill – Day 1
Early experience with a home battery.