Teslarati

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Tesla has reached 244 homes in San Diego through its VPP program, as shown in a screenshot of the Tesla app posted by one person who was recently accepted into the program (via Sawyer Merritt ). In addition to California, a VPP program is also being piloted in Texas through the company’s recently registered utility project, Tesla Electric.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Photo: Base Power Select Lennar communities in Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, come with Base Power home backup batteries for free when homeowners sign up for Bases monthly electricity service. Base Power is a licensed electricity provider that operates in deregulated areas of Texas. Its a timely move. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image: Renew Home Texas is about to get a major power boost – a new AI-powered virtual power plant (VPP) delivering capacity equivalent to 200,000 homes during peak demand. Starting in spring 2025, the companies plan to roll out the program across Texas, installing these smart thermostats in homes served by NRG’s retail electricity providers.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

Photo: Enel North America Power-hungry Texas needs solar and battery storage to help meet demand and balance the grid, so its largest utility-scale storage operator is delivering. GW of wind and solar plus over 1 GW of grid-scale storage. Texas consumes more energy than any other state, and demand is growing.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 26, 2024

Photo: Avangrid True North is Avangrid’s (NYSE: AGR) first solar farm in Texas – and it will be the largest solar project in the company’s portfolio. Avangrid installed more than 488,000 solar panels at the 321 megawatt (MW) solar farm in Falls County, Texas, over the past several months, and it says it finished ahead of schedule.

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Baua Electric

MAY 6, 2024

Photo: Cypress Creek Renewables A 208-megawatt (MW) solar farm with 80 megawatt hours (MWh) of storage has come online west of San Antonio, Texas. Solar + storage developers Cypress Creek Renewables brought Zier Solar + Storage online in Brackettville, Texas, on May 2, 2024. Texas is No 1 in the US for solar capacity.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Photo: City of San Antonio San Antonios grid is about to get substantial backup with a 120-megawatt (MW), 480-megawatt-hour (MWh) battery storage project. OCI Energy will also contribute $250,000 to the University of Texas at San Antonio to support educational initiatives tied to the contribution. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Photo: RWE Rivian will power its DC fast-charging network with renewable energy company RWE’s Champion Wind farm in Texas. This project shows the potential to meaningfully decarbonize the grid and support a more circular economy through reuse and recovery of existing infrastructure, all while maintaining highly competitive economics.”

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Baua Electric

APRIL 8, 2024

Photo by Drew Rae on Pexels.com A total solar eclipse will bring complete darkness to 12 US states today – watch live to see its effect on solar power and the grid across all 50 US states. As the eclipse cuts a path from Texas to Maine, they expect a 71% peak power reduction in the East, 45% in the West, and 93% in the Texas grid, ERCOT.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Photo: Primergy Solar Solar topped coal’s output in Texas for the first time in any month, sending 3.26 million megawatt-hours (MWh) onto the grid vs. coal’s 2.96 million MWh, according to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) hourly grid monitor. Texas is the No 1 state for solar capacity. million MWh in March.

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Baua Electric

MAY 9, 2024

Image: Base Power Base Power just became the only licensed electricity provider in Texas to offer customers an all-in-one monthly energy service, home battery, and installation, and solar isn’t required. Texas is No. The company plans to add a solar + storage offering “in the future.” Get started here. –

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This massive 468-megawatt (MW) solar farm is set to power 80,000 homes and businesses, providing a major boost to the Texas grid. Tallgrass prairies are some of the rarest ecosystems in the US, with less than 1% of Texas’ original tallgrass prairies still in existence. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 19, 2024

Photo by Kelly on Pexels.com In the first half of 2024, the US power grid got a major boost, with developers and power plant owners adding a hefty 20.2 Texas and Florida were at the forefront, contributing 38% of the US solar additions. California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada were the hot spots for these additions.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid. Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea. These are local investors who are very well capitalized and are personally known to the staff of the utility and city officials.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

My sojourn from grease monkey to EV advocate By TERESA PORTER; PRESIDENT, HEART OF TEXAS ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. Teresa Porter and her Nissan at an outreach event in Texas. I’m probably the last person you’d expect to be passionate about electric vehicles (EVs). I won’t even try to take credit for the progress.

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Baua Electric

MAY 13, 2024

Photo by PhotoMIX Company on Pexels.com US grid operators haven’t been practicing long-term transmission planning, but for the first time, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) just made it mandatory. FERC now requires proactive grid planning FERC oversees interstate electricity transmission.

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EV Adoption

JUNE 29, 2021

With the freeze in Texas this past February and the annual concern in western states of power outages due to fire precautions or an overtaxed grid due to heatwaves, homeowners are becoming increasingly aware of the need and options for backup power. Ford Intelligent Power. Image Source: Ford. kW) versus 7.2 kW with the Hybrid model.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Smart Meters and Needs Smart energy meters as compared to conventional meters provides flexibility in terms of safety, responsive time, storing and reading data remotely, provides wireless communication that enables the feasibility of calculating the overload and underload on grid through a particular area.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 30, 2011

Multiple sources of electricity generation make the grid reliable. In contrast, there is no effort to protect our transportation “grid” from vulnerabilities to petroleum’s monopoly. In others, like California and Texas, which use a preponderance of natural gas, it’s truly a slam dunk for electric transportation.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2023

Microturbines run quiet and are portable, which is a strong selling point to potential customers, one they proved to the IndyCar community at the Texas Motor Speedway in April. Let’s talk about what you did at the Texas IndyCar race in April. Capstone : Let’s use the Texas IndyCar race as an example.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2025

Homeowners then pay a lower-than-average rate for the solar energy they produce each month, saving them money compared to typical electricity rates in Texas. The VPP supports the Texas grid, reducing reliance on polluting power plants during times of high demand. Blake Richetta, chairman and CEO of sonnen Inc.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2025

Homeowners then pay a lower-than-average rate for the solar energy they produce each month, saving them money compared to typical electricity rates in Texas. The VPP supports the Texas grid, reducing reliance on polluting power plants during times of high demand. Blake Richetta, chairman and CEO of sonnen Inc.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 6, 2024

Image: Sunrun Tesla Electric, Tesla’s electric utility division, is partnering with solar installer Sunrun to grow its user base in Texas. Tesla Electric is currently only available to Powerwall owners in Texas and the UK, but the company has plans to expand its products through this new division. Nasdaq: TSLA).

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Baua Electric

JULY 18, 2024

Photo: Rhizome Rhizome , an extreme weather resilience planning platform for the power grid, has a new platform that helps utilities reduce wildfire risk. gridFirm builds on Rhizome’s AI-based platform currently being used by utilities to model grid failures caused by extreme weather. Get started here.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Develop and demonstrate an off‐board bi‐directional DC charging system for plug‐in electric vehicles and evaluate impact of grid services on PEV batteries. Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. Description. Federal funding. Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 6, 2022

Although Tesla didn’t close down its factories in California, the company relocated its headquarters to Austin following Elon Musk’s personal decision to move to the Texas capital. Personally, I don’t blame him for moving out of a state where government officials are openly hostile toward Elon Musk.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies. National Grid. University of Texas at Austin. Indianapolis Power & Light Company. Kansas City Power & Light. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. New York State.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

For the first time, the grid-scale segment exceeded 3 gigawatts (GW) deployed in one quarter and nearly topped 4 GW. John Hensley, ACP’s vice president of markets and policy analysis, said: Energy storage has unique capabilities to address grid resilience, with the ability to serve as generation, load, and transmission.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 17, 2024

The tariff maximizes customers’ earnings by charging their batteries when prices are low and selling when they are high to support the grid during peak periods. Plus, those customers with Tesla Powerwalls are beneficial for customers who don’t have them because the Powerwalls help keep the grid balanced for everyone. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

At the same time, Multi-Occupant Vehicles (MOVs) are scored using a hefty formula that includes person-miles driven, their practicality score, the amount of grid charging used, and whether they maintain the 35mph target average speed. Texas A&M 199.9 mph Rank score = Person miles driven x Completion factor x Speed derating.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Image: China Energy China’s CHN Energy has connected the first solar units from its 1-gigawatt (GW) offshore solar farm – the world’s first and largest of its kind – to the grid. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 9, 2024

Mission and Ørsted have already submitted interconnection applications for the projects to MISO , the electric grid operator for the central US. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

MoveOn Energy, the solar farm’s developer , will install a further 45 MW of power on its own behalf and connect that to the grid by summer 2024. Read more: Texas installs another big solar + battery storage project To limit power outages and make your home more resilient, consider going solar with a battery storage system.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s the first time in 80 years that a renewable electricity source has accounted for over half of annual capacity additions to the grid. California and Texas led the US for new solar installations in Q3, and Indiana ranked third with 663 megawatts (MW) of new capacity as several large utility-scale projects came online.

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Baua Electric

MAY 28, 2024

Still, the project’s page states that it proposes to “provide clean electricity to the Cheyenne Light and Power (CLPT) grid.” According to the US Energy Information Administration, Wyoming produces almost 12 times more energy – generated mainly by fossil fuels – than it consumes, making it the second-biggest net energy supplier after Texas.

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Baua Electric

MAY 22, 2024

Its initial customers are made up of large EV operators managing “hundreds” of light-duty vehicles requiring up to 1 megawatt of energy per day that don’t yet have grid-connected EV chargers. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sterling will bring a unique perspective to the Board, and expand the diversity of the Board to Texas. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion. Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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