SunGreen Systems Blog

Everyone is super excited about batteries.  Rightfully so, because they can provide a lot of savings and insure your investments against future rate changes.  Batteries accomplish this savings by reducing your monthly demand charges and discharging the solar energy later during the most expensive times. Before you install a battery, you should consider your energy efficiency options first because they will also provide you with demand and energy savings. Energy efficiency paired with solar and energy storage is like installing a larger battery at a lower cost.

Batteries and other energy storage technology can provide significant savings to businesses and homes. They do so by strategically deploying the solar energy you produce at higher priced times. For businesses a battery also decreases the demand charges. For some tax incentives, the battery can only be charged by the solar energy system (or needs at least 75% to be charged by solar). How does a battery know when to charge/discharge the electricity? That depends on what type of battery you get.

We have been waiting for this signature for the last few weeks, and finally, Governor Brown signed SB 700 which extends the SGIP incentive 5 years.  If you follow our social media accounts, you may have seen over the last month we have slowly been celebrating each step closer to the governor's desk. We hoped he would have signed the bill a few days earlier, so we could celebrate it more at Solar Power International in Anaheim, but it made for some great news on the last day of SPI. 

MILLBRAE, Calif., Sept. 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stem, Inc. has announced new collaborations with Urban Energy Solutions, LLC and SunGreen Systems to use Stem’s artificial intelligence (AI), Athena, in intelligent solar + storage solutions in Arizona and California. These projects represent Stem’s entry into a sixth U.S. state and the continued high growth of solar + storage momentum across the country.