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Inverse | March 30, 2020

Tesla is bidding to build one of the world's largest batteries, planning documents reveal. The company has outlined plans to build 244 Megapacks in Hawaii, each with around three megawatt-hours of capacity, to offer 810 megawatt-hours of total storage. Electrek reported Sunday that the project will discharge energy at a rate of 135 megawatts. If it comes to fruition, it could rank as one of the largest batteries in the world and maintain Tesla's status as a key player in energy storage. While th...

La Jolla Light | April 03, 2020

La Jolla Community Center (LJCC) will be sporting a new roof and solar panels next year, and has its community partnerships to thank for it. “The existing roof predates the 10 years the building has been the LJCC,” said board member and facilities committee chair Don Hodges, in an interview with the Light. Estimating the roof’s age at more than 20 years old, he added, “We have experienced roof leaks the last few winters that were patched by various roofers, but it’s worn out; it’s time to repla...

Google | February 17, 2020

Google spinout Dandelion Energy wants to push home geothermal heating to new heights in 2020. The company, which emerged from the X "Moonshot Factory" in 2017, has grown to around 100 employees and installed hundreds of sites in New York state. It continues to refine its drilling technology to make residential drilling and heat pump installation easier and more competitive with incumbent fossil fuels. Last month, it pulled in another $12 million, bringing total investment to $35 million, and hir...

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Enverus | March 03, 2023

RatedPower (a part of Enverus company), a SaaS platform for the green energy sector, has recently released its annual findings from different industry experts and simulations worldwide and predicted the trends in the solar and renewable energy sector for 2023. According to the findings, renewable energy companies would focus on enhancing the adoption of renewable energy power generation, energy storage investment, reducing the levelized cost of electricity, and fuel diversificatio...