Tabuchi Electric, a solar-plus-storage manufacturer, and Geli, a software provider for battery storage and microgrids, announced a partnership that will deliver a residential solar-plus-storage solution designed to enable faster solar market growth. The combination of Geli’s software with Tabuchi’s hardware helps utilities manage distributed solar and additional home energy devicesRead More

The solar industry is drawing interest across the United States. The Obama administration is trying to push solar more and more, and Google announced its interest in solar planning. What’s bigger than those two things? But turning interest and curiosity into a solar install still brings a lot of unknowns. SolyMoly, theRead More

Online solar energy marketplace Geostellar has patented an invention for programmatically placing solar panels on rooftops or tracts of land in a 3D virtual world and simulating production over a typical meteorological year based on shading, slope and orientation. The invention forms the basis for Geostellar’s instant Solar Profile, whichRead More

Harness the power of distributed intelligence! Try yelling that. You’ll feel like a He-Man of solar power. Now, calmly, try saying, harness the power of distributed intelligence COMBINED with centralized data management. Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? Those are some of the solid ideas that DC Systems is promoting atRead More

The agriculture / water / energy problem: You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Due to a combination of a lack of data, high energy costs, and limited mobile applications in the field, farmers can spend up to 50 percent more on energy than necessary during farming operations, particularly whenRead More

Wireless Monitoring Solutions in Large-Scale Projects As the solar industry matures, there is a fundamental shift in how large-scale solar projects are funded, constructed and operated. While government programs in the form of tax credits, initiatives, legislations, subsidies and general funding encouraged renewable energy and environmental action, the financing modelRead More

Clean Power Research (www.cleanpower.com) today launched PowerClerk Interconnect, software that helps reduce solar soft costs by taking formerly paper-intensive interconnection application processes online. Funded by a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Incubator award, PowerClerk Interconnect gives utilities new levels of control over their interconnection workflows, and streamlines the application process forRead More