UK local energy market trial achieves ‘breakthrough’ as flexibility trading platform goes live
Centrica, one of the UK’s largest energy companies, is celebrating a "major breakthrough" as its flexibility trading platform goes live.
Articles tagged with: Sonnen
Sonnen, Rocky Mountain Power to deploy 12.6MWh virtual power plant in Utah
Rapidly-globalising energy storage company Sonnen has teamed up with utility Rocky Mountain Power to take its virtual power plant concept to the US state of Utah.
Corporations, citizens and most bankable batteries: ‘Storage & Smart Power’ returns
Volume 19 of PV Tech Power has just hit the (digital) shelves and once again the quarterly technical journal from our publisher Solar Media includes ‘Storage & Smart Power’, the dedicated section created and curated by Energy-Storage.news.
Siemens’ Junelight launch: Not about making money from selling batteries
Sales of battery storage units to residential households in Germany are booming, but it’s the value of services the batteries can provide, rather than the hardware itself that offers a long-term economic opportunity, a Siemens representative has said.
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Why Shell bought Sonnen: Value is in behind-the-meter potential
Perhaps the biggest indicator of the recognition of behind-the-meter storage so far this year has been the acquisition of Sonnen by oil major Shell. CEO Christoph Ostermann spoke to Andy Colthorpe about why home storage uptake could be on a worldwide series of inflection points.
Breaking Shell to acquire battery firm sonnen
Shell is to acquire German battery storage manufacturer sonnen in a bid to accelerate its home energy services position.
Sonnen: Residential batteries ready to compete with fossil fuels and nuclear in Germany
Batteries in private households will be now able to perform the “same tasks as a conventional power plant”, across the whole of Germany, the CEO of Sonnen has said, following a ruling that opens up grid services markets to the company’s devices.
Sonnen factory and Tesla VPP success celebrated by South Australia’s state government
Steven Marshall, the Premier of South Australia, has welcomed the start of assembly-line work at Sonnen’s new factory in Adelaide, while rival Tesla’s virtual power plant (VPP) in the state is beginning its second phase of development.
Sonnen’s newest technology deployed in UK energy market for the first time
Installations of sonnen’s latest hybrid battery storage units are underway, alongside new residential solar arrays, as part of a Local Energy Market (LEM) being built by one of the UK’s largest energy companies to test the capabilities of a virtual marketplace of distributed energy resources.
‘World’s number one market’ – South Australia’s battery subsidies and Sonnen’s new factory
Subsidies will be available to residents of South Australia who want to purchase home battery systems from next month, while Sonnen looks set to open up a manufacturing and shipping centre in the state.
Hanwha Q Cells, SunPower in Europe, US partnerships to push home storage forward
PV manufacturers Hanwha Q Cells and Sunpower have both signed deals to bring home energy storage to residential solar customers in Europe and in the US respectively.
Sonnen CEO: Shell and other major players taking action, not just talking, about clean energy
Shell, which has just participated in an investment round for sonnen, is one of the big players in the incumbent energy industry that “really acts” on clean energy, rather than just talking about it, sonnen’s CEO has said.
Shell invests in Sonnen to drive distributed energy aims forward
Shell has continued to scale-up its interest in distributed energy by participating in a €60 million (US$70.23 million) investment round by German battery storage firm sonnen.
Mercedes-Benz Energy: No economic benefit to basing home storage on EV batteries
There will be no benefit to basing home energy storage systems on automotive batteries, in the medium or long term, a representative of Mercedes-Benz Energy has said.
sonnen-Engie partner up in France to sell solar-plus-storage through ‘shared vision’
French utility Engie and German energy storage firm sonnen have formed a partnership to offer a package of solar and energy storage to households in France, according to Reuters.
Puerto Rico ROUNDUP: Solar microgrids, donations and battery-powered clean water pumps
Puerto Rico ROUNDUP: News in brief on solar-plus-storage from the hurricane-hit island.
Sonnen adds EVs to Virtual Power Plant ‘community’
Germany’s sonnen introduced a scheme a while back in which customers pay a flat, reduced rate for their electricity each month while the company aggregate their batteries together to benefit the grid – and now the offer has been extended to electric vehicle owners.
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Blockchain in action: stabilising the grid in Germany and the Netherlands
Case study: Blockchain technology is being put to the test in northern Europe, writes Jean-Baptiste Cornefert of Sonnen.
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Blockchain, energy storage as T&D infrastructure and Jigar Shah’s ‘freedom to invest’
The digital ledger system blockchain has been both praised and misunderstood in equal measure and its relationship to the physical world of electrons is at its earliest stages of exploration. In the latest ‘Storage & Smart Power’ section of PV Tech Power, Carsten Reincke-Collon, CTO of Younicos looks at how energy storage and management software will interact with blockchain-led or blockchain-like systems of data processing and recording.
Sonnen strikes AU$90m deal with installer to enter Philippines and Malaysia markets
German energy storage system and energy management services provider Sonnen has made its first play for home storage markets in the Philippines and Malaysia.
Sonnen seeks to work with US utilities, not replace them
In its home territory of Germany, energy storage provider Sonnen is making a play to replace utilities, but its business models in the US will instead emphasise cooperation with existing energy suppliers.
Video: Long-awaited Code of Practice for UK residential storage ‘protects consumers at every stage’
The IET has released a promotional video for its Code of Practice on installing and selling electrical energy storage systems for the UK consumer market, featuring representatives from storage pioneers Tesla and sonnen.
Long-awaited code of practice will bring ‘structure, process and certainty’ to UK energy storage
The UK's Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has published its long-awaited Code of Practice for Electrical Energy Storage Systems, filling what has been described as a vacuum of clear guidance for installers and their customers.
Tesla’s battery tech guru of 11 years leaves company
Tesla’s senior director of battery technology since 2006 has quit the company seeking pastures new, a company spokeswoman confirmed this morning.
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Sonnen UK: IET Code of Practice could solve problem of ‘real lack of guidance’ for installers
A code of practice for installing and selling electrical energy storage systems for the UK consumer market could help fill a “vacuum” of clear guidance for installers and their customers, Sonnen’s UK chief has said.
Murdoch heir is in and Peter Rive is out at Tesla
Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch’s son James is one of two new independent board directors at Tesla, while the EV, tech and energy storage maker confirmed that former SolarCity CTO Peter Rive is leaving the company.
Sonnen wants to take 2,000 Australian customers away from big utilities this year
Sonnen is looking to sign up 2,000 Australian customers this year for SonnenFlat, where households sign up to pay a monthly ‘flat rate’ for power while their batteries are used to benefit the local grid.
2020 FiT expirations could be inflection point for Germany’s residential energy storage sales
Residential energy storage in Germany for PV self-consumption could be handed a boost in 2020, as some of the earliest premium feed-in tariffs (FiTs) begin to expire.
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‘Germany is still our most important market’: Sonnen’s Philipp Schröder
With Intersolar Europe and the accompaying ees Europe events taking place this week for PV systems and energy storage respectively in Munich, we thought it timely to speak with Philipp Schröder, managing director for sales and marketing at Germany's leading storage provider, Sonnen.
Blockchain and batteries will assist German grid operator in integrating renewables
A “first of its kind” collaboration between energy storage provider Sonnen and transmission system operator TenneT will integrate solar and batteries into energy networks in Germany using blockchain technology.