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Author Archives for Charles W. Thurston

Articles by Charles W. Thurston

+ Storage Enact-Systems
Home solar + storage is really a sale of software

Enact’s all-in-one cloud software platform handles design, sales, project and asset management. Installers face a difficult task in ed...

March 7, 2023
+ Storage Energizer-1
Legacy consumer battery brands target home energy storage

The market for home battery storage has finally crossed the line of attraction for large consumer battery makers, with offerings now availab...

February 15, 2023
Featured battery crystal ball
Will California NEM 3.0 boost home energy storage installations?

Utilities were big winners in the California solar + storage market in mid-December, convincing the California Public Utilities Commission (...

December 27, 2022
+ Storage united states battery graphic
Can U.S. energy storage bank on sustainability?

This article originally appeared in the Q4 issue of Solar Builder magazine. Two notable U.S. battery manufacturing announcements have been m...

December 19, 2022
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VPPs are an emerging investment asset class

The fast pace of recent solar + storage-based virtual power plant (VPP) rollouts across the country is leading to the emergence of new asset...

November 30, 2022
News Canadian-Solar-EP-Cube
10 home energy system standouts heading into 2023

RE+ 2022 was a smash success for the 27,000 attendees and the 800 or so exhibitors, among which a raft of new residential energy storage pro...

October 25, 2022
+ Storage panasonic-evervolt-RE
Integrated PV module + energy storage manufacturers are on the...

The handful of integrated photovoltaic solar panel plus battery storage system manufacturers in the market are solidifying the sophisticatio...

September 27, 2022
Featured RE-plus-photo
RE+ begins! Let’s gush about the return of the largest...

How do you get 20,000 jubilant people in the same place at once? Book Mick Jagger, or hold the return of the largest solar show in North Ame...

September 20, 2022
Featured rise-of-the-machine-learning-graphic
How advances in ESS software create new revenue opportunities for...

The current generation of energy storage software is far more capable of gathering and analyzing data from more disparate sources, at speeds...

July 27, 2022
+ Storage Posigen-crew
Selling battery attachments with solar PV systems beyond California

An erratic yet accelerating trend in utility valuation of residential and C&I battery storage for grid services is helping system provid...

June 29, 2022
+ Storage battery crystal ball
Questions facing the lithium-ion battery future

Advanced batteries are the storage system favored by utilities and microgrids. The electric future — including expected dramatic growt...

May 25, 2022
Featured Ninedot-energy
Safer batteries, better economics usher in urban energy storage era

NineDot Energy is developing this containerized storage project in the Bronx borough of New York City. Urban battery storage adoption finall...

April 26, 2022
News united states battery graphic
Utility-scale batteries? VPP programs? Both? How states are valuing energy...

Assigning value to energy storage is a complex task that is becoming more organized, if not easier, after years of explosive storage adoptio...

March 30, 2022
Featured lead acid battery innovations
How lead-acid batteries remain viable in solar applications

The global race to produce enough batteries for energy storage applications is only beginning to pick up speed. While many battery startups ...

February 23, 2022
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