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How Solar-plus-Battery Systems Insulate Customers from Rising Retail Electricity Prices
In the face of rising retail prices for grid electricity, investing in solar-plus-battery systems can insulate grid-connected customers from those increasing prices and effectively lock in a peak price that won't continue to climb, according to a recent analysis by RMI.
Aggregated Energy Storage Has Arrived
Earlier this month, energy storage developer Stem and utility PG&E aggregated a fleet of behind-the-meter energy storage systems and successfully bid into the CAISO real-time energy market. A look inside this major battery milestone.
3 Steps to Maximize the Value of Batteries
With costs plummeting and regulations evolving, now is the time for customers and utilities to begin exploring how to integrate storage into their purchasing decisions and annual planning processes.
Tesla Hitting the Battery Accelerator
No one knows for certain what lower-priced batteries means for the grid. Readily available, cheap storage is certainly capable of changing the grid as we know it, but other factors will all play an important role in the relevance of batteries moving forward.
Batteries for your PV System: How much do you need?
Just as important as how cheap batteries are getting is another crucial question: how much battery do you need?