A solar + battery storage microgrid at S.U. Matrullas, a K through 9 school that educates over 150 students in the remote town of Orocovis, Puerto Rico was commissioned via collaboration with Pura Energía and energy storage provider sonnen. This project serves as a model for the resiliency created byRead More

Sunrise Solar Solutions LLC, the largest locally owned and operated solar installation company in New York’s Westchester County and the Hudson Valley, unveiled the  sonnenBatterie battery back-up solar power system at last weekend’s Fall Westchester Home Show in White Plains, N.Y. To ensure power reliability and cost efficiency — theRead More

RGS Energy and Sonnen, Inc., say they are immediately offering U.S. manufactured battery storage options to U.S. residential solar customers. “We believe battery storage provides great value for our residential solar customers,” said Chris Gorski, RGS Energy’s director of Special Projects. “We chose Sonnen because of the safety, stability andRead 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

HelioPower, an integrated energy solutions company based in Murrieta, Calif., installed a sonnenBatterie eco 10 System in a Bonsall, Calif. home. In combination with an on-site solar array, the sonnenBatterie offers perpetual backup power in the event of a natural disaster or power outage, providing safety and peace of mindRead More

While Tesla continues to make the splashy headlines to the outside world, SONNEN continues to position itself to make a bigger impact with local and regional installers. The latest news: Blake Richetta, former North American Sales Manager for Tesla Energy, will head SONNEN’s growing expansion in the U.S. as Vice PresidentRead More

The sonnen Group, a leader in intelligent battery storage in Europe, successfully completed a new financing round with a total equity amount of $85 million USD. The financing enables sonnen to continue its dynamic growth as an energy innovator in Germany and deepen its expansion into international markets. This continued growthRead More

The rapid evolution of module-level electronics has spiked performance, extended reliability and crushed manufacturing prices, but there is still a ways to go before the operation and maintenance of the technology is satisfactory to all the players involved. “When people talk about the business model for solar microinverters or optimizers,Read More

sonnen and AutoGrid Systems have partnered to fully integrate AutoGrid’s flexibility management application suite, AutoGrid Flex, with sonnen’s residential and commercial energy storage technology. Through this partnership, AutoGrid and sonnen will help energy project developers, utilities and other energy service providers better manage, optimize and aggregate sonnenBatterie systems and otherRead More

Homeowners in the Eastern United States can now turn to Enersave.com, an online energy efficiency marketplace, to reserve sonnen residential battery storage products. sonnen launched in the US market in 2015 and manufactures its sonnenBatterie products in California. With more than 12,000 battery systems working with solar electric systems inRead More