I think I will go with a home brew block stacker instead. Would be fun to watch it work.
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018, 8:00 AM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > ENERGY STORAGEHome batteries are having a record year > > > Published: Friday, September 7, 2018 > > After years of buzz, the residential battery appears to be achieving > liftoff in the United States, according to a new report. > > Residential energy storage is used by homeowners either as emergency backup > during blackouts or to soak up the excess electricity captured by rooftop > solar panels. > > In the second quarter of 2018, these batteries made up more than a third of > all energy-storage deployments. That's a steep rise from the prior year, > when the market was only a tenth the size. The data comes from Wood > Mackenzie Power & Renewables, formerly known as GTM Research. > > Overall, energy storage installations increased to more than 156 > megawatt-hours, which is three times what occurred in the same quarter last > year. > > Energy storage added by utilities — called "front of the meter" deployments > — were beefier than in the second quarter of 2017. However, they made up > only a third of total deployments. > > The remaining two-thirds were "behind the meter" deployments, which happen > at individual buildings. Those in-building installments were nearly equally > divided between residences and businesses. > > Wood Mackenzie identified California and Hawaii as the leading states in > residential energy storage, with Massachusetts and Arizona in contention > for a distant third. > > In the second quarter, the report said, several states and their utilities > introduced new policies friendly to energy storage, including Arizona, > California, Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York > and Rhode Island. > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
