The days when a residential or commercial solar installer did not need to know the difference in performance between lead-acid and lithium-based batteries are over. Battery storage has emerged as an unavoidable complement to solar, slashing peak charges and outwitting utility time-of-use charge games, not to mention saving microgrids fromRead More

Recommending a battery to a customer in a solar + storage project is no less complicated than recommending a particular solar array solution. Depending on customer goals of low initial cost, ease of maintenance, frequency of use, depth of discharge, source of recharge energy, longevity and warranty, however, choices narrowRead More

APsystems: True three-phrase microinverters APsystems boasts an industry best-selling 3-phase solar microinverter and the industry’s first true 3-phase (phase-balanced & phase-monitored) unit, the YC1000-3. This model handles 208V or 277Y/480V grid voltages with 900 watts maximum output, 95 percent peak efficiency and comes with ZigBee communication and integrated ground. AtRead More

In anticipation of the planned reopening the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP), SimpliPhi Power and CivicSolar are partnering to bring versatile energy storage solutions to residential installers in California. The AccESS all-in-one-box storage system from SimpliPhi was developed in partnership with solar and energy storage installers for power security that is safe,Read More

The mid-term growth of the U.S. residential solar-plus-storage market will be nothing short of phenomenal, as the seamless melding of generation, storage and energy management emerges in single, overarching systems. Yes, we might finally be headed there — the 1950s vision of the all-electric GE kitchen of the future, butRead More

Before either team would score their first points during the historic Super Bowl LI, Hawaiian Electric ratepayers living in Kaneohe and elsewhere on the island of O’ahu lost power. Not once, but twice. “When you have people over to watch the game, each time it takes the cable box 15Read More

Solar+storage installations only look to increase over the next decade, but SimpliPhi Power is wasting no time in making its mark on the segment. The company has nearly doubled its energy storage deployments from 5 MW in mid-2015 to 9 MW at the end of 2016, and increased its revenueRead More

Developed in partnership with solar and energy storage installers to optimize equipment and streamline cost calculations, SimpliPhi Power has released a complete plug-and-play Energy Storage System (ESS) that integrates power storage into new and existing solar installations both on and off grid. SimpliPhi’s fully integrated solution includes the company’s batteryRead More

SimpliPhi Power introduces a high-voltage energy storage battery for commercial and industrial markets that leverages the same high efficiency, cobalt-free and scalable core technology as its award-winning low-voltage lithium-ion storage solutions. The modular high-voltage batteries are compatible with industry standard single- and three-phase inverters in systems that require 250 kWhRead More

Ojai, Calif.-based SimpliPhi Power continues to gain traction in the Australian market with its cobalt-free lithium-ion storage solutions now incorporated as part of GSES (Global Sustainable Energy Solutions Pty Ltd) training courses. GSES is a renewable energy engineering, training and consultancy and has recently launched the grid-connect PV with batteryRead More