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it’s electric Powers EVs with Electricity from Local Buildings

Greentown Labs

Like so many great startups, its electric was born during the pandemic. This need got her wheels turning, and while on a classic pandemic walk, she and her future co-founder Nathan King struck on a novel solution: power from local buildings. its electrics model is deeply integrated into the communities where it deploys.

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A Vibrant Cleantech Startup Ecosystem Takes Root in India

GreenTechMedia

It’s easy to see what’s motivating India’s emerging ecosystem of sustainable technology startups with a glance out the window from the office of Sangam Ventures in Gurugram, just outside of Delhi. In response, a vibrant ecosystem of sustainability-oriented startups, investors and incubators is taking shape in India today.

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DistribuTech: Itron and Landis+Gyr Take Smart Meter Energy Disaggregation Mainstream

GreenTechMedia

SAN ANTONIO — Energy disaggregation is a term of art for technologies that can parse out energy usage of individual loads like air conditioning, heating, lighting and appliances, simply by analyzing single sources of data like smart meter feeds or circuit-level sensors. ” Gupta said.

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Sunrun to Turn Home Batteries Into Grid Resources for 2 Major Utilities

GreenTechMedia

rooftop solar installer, finalized two utility partnerships to turn home batteries into miniature power plants. Sunrun is also assembling a 300-home fleet for New York state utility Orange & Rockland, a subsidiary of Con Edison, it announced Wednesday. Sunrun, the leading U.S.

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Schneider Electric Unveils the Energy Center for Distributed-Energy-Enabled Homes

GreenTechMedia

Homes need a lot more digital smarts nowadays to manage rooftop solar, backup batteries and electric vehicle chargers. It’s nice if those distributed energy resources (DERs) can be integrated with household electrical load controls via smartphone or Alexa or Google voice-activated devices.

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So, What Exactly Are Virtual Power Plants?

GreenTechMedia

And in energy circles, one of the biggest buzzwords in recent years is the virtual power plant, or VPP. But VPPs have really taken off in the last 10 years, not just as a concept but as something that a growing number of energy companies are creating, using and commercializing. Another difference concerns markets and regulation.

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Opus One Tests ‘Transactive Energy’ for California Rooftop Solar, Behind-the-Meter Batteries

GreenTechMedia

Building a technology platform to control distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar systems, behind-the-meter batteries, EV chargers and flexible electricity loads is a challenging enough task. So far, it’s been tested on a computer-modeled fleet of 10,000 virtual distributed energy resources (DERs).