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AES Receives EEI’s Prestigious Edison Award for AES’ Advancion® Energy Storage Platform

The AES Corporation  announced that it is the recipient of the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) 2016 International Edison Award for its development and deployment of Advancion® 4, its fourth generation, grid-scale, battery-based energy storage platform. This is the Company’s fifth International Edison Award and is a testament to the work AES’ employees are doing alongside […]

Toyota Is Ready to Catch Some Rays in Plano

It might not be the sunshine state, but Texas gets its fair share of sun. And when Toyota moves into its new North American headquarters next year, the automaker plans to “catch a ray.”Enter Toyota’s Plano solar power system. The approximately 7.75-megawatt system will be the largest corporate office on-site solar installation among non-utility companies […]

Con Edison “Virtual Power Plant” Program Combines Solar and Storage to Improve Grid Resiliency

Beginning this summer, Con Edison and SunPower Corp. will partner on a pilot program to offer solar power systems with battery storage to more than 300 New York homeowners. The aggregation of hundreds of homes with solar power and battery storage will provide the utility with a cost-effective and innovative “virtual power plant,” providing participating […]

Ubiquitous Energy’s Truly Transparent Solar Technology Demonstrated Globally in BMW Brand Stores

Ubiquitous Energy, Inc., leader in transparent solar technology, is pleased to announce that its ClearView PowerTM technology is being demonstrated in BMW Brand Stores around the world this summer as part of BMW’s “i Exhibition.” The ClearView Power transparent photovoltaic coating is being displayed on 6-inch glass panels produced in Ubiquitous Energy’s Silicon Valley pilot […]

Solar Impulse Lands In New York Completing The Crossing Of The United States

Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) – the first solar airplane capable of flying day and night without using a drop of fuel – left Lehigh Valley International Airport, Pennsylvania, late yesterday evening and landed at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport, New York, early this morning, after circling the Statue of Liberty. By attempting the first solar flight around […]

Consumers Energy Powers Michigan with Renewable Energy, Celebrates New Solar Facility at Grand Valley State University

Consumers Energy recently celebrated its first solar power plant — a 17-acre array of 11,000 Michigan-made solar panels at Grand Valley State University that produces electricity for Michigan homes and businesses.”We are pleased to energize Michigan with new, renewable sources of energy,” said John Russell, president and CEO of Consumers Energy. “This new Solar Gardens location […]

Apple now has an energy company: Report

Apple has created a subsidiary energy company, 9to5Mac reported Friday. Apple Energy LLC is seeking to sell power at wholesale prices, in part from the solar energy and hydroelectric facilities connected to places like the Apple Data Center, according to documents filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The new Apple Energy entity was incorporated […]

More Than One Hundred Coloradans Gather to Tell Commission to Protect Solar

Recently more than one hundred Colorado solar energy workers, customers, and supporters gathered on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol to show support for solar energy growth. The event took place before the first Public Utilities Commission (PUC) hearing on Xcel’s proposal to restructure electricity rates. At the event and hearing, Coloradans expressed concern that […]