Here is an excerpt from an excellent article in Bloomberg: Microgrids are emerging as a credible threat to the dominance of America’s 100-year-old-plus utility monopoly. The small-scale versions of centralized power systems, once just used against blackouts, are now gaining…
Luckily it was a sunny afternoon at the “Just Doing Stuff” fairgrounds which were hosted in the Emerson Ave Community Gardens because showing solar panels has much more impact in the sunlight. I got a lot of very positive feedback from…
If you want to see the project in real life and talk to the inventor then there are two opportunities: Just Doing Stuff Festival in Los Angeles. Mark these dates in your calendar and stop by. The festival is free…
Edison (SCE) informed a couple living in Santa Barbara that their application for a grid connection of their solar system was denied because the batteries they used to store energy for emergency backup power were considered “power generators” and not…
Here is an interesting proposal from Steven Chu the former U.S. energy secretary about how utility companies could expand their business to provide power storage at the end customers houses: Ten years from now, the company can install a battery in the…
It all started during a stormy winter in 2011 when my power was out for 4 days. I was thinking: if I only had some independent power source available. Maybe I would not have lost all my food in the…