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He is also chairman of Solarcity, which he said can helpprovide solar energy for the national network of Tesla EV chargers his company is creating e

#Companies like Vivint, Solarcity and Sunrun have raised all upwards of $500 million to finance residential solar projects around the country.

#Tesla batteries are powering an energy revolution Solarcity generator Tesla motors lithium-ion battery packs aren t just powering electric luxury sports sedans for wealthy any more.

and Solarcity, the Silicon valley solar installer, will start providing Tesla batteries for businesses that want to cut their utility bills.#

#A big box retailer like Walmart could charge up a Tesla battery pack with cheap energy produced by its Solarcity rooftop photovoltaic array

And the cost of the Solarcity s system, called Demandlogic? Effectively zero, according to Solarcity, since the monthly payments for energy storage would be less than the money saved by not forking over cash to the utility.

And if that sounds like a threat to century-old monopoly utilities, it is.####Our business model is to become the energy company of the 21st century,

##Solarcity chief executive Lyndon Rive told#The Atlantic.####You re still connected to the grid but the grid would be your secondary provider

such as those in California and parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut where Solarcity is offering Demandlogic.

While Stem is a startup the utilities should be particularly wary of Solarcity and its partnership with Tesla motors.

Tesla chief executive Elon musk serves as Solarcity s chairman and is Rive s cousin.)Tesla and Solarcity s combined market cap##$21. 3 billion##exceeds that of the parent companies of Pacific gas & electric and Southern California Edison, the two big California utilities

whose customers Rive covets. And Solarcity is pioneering#the securitization of solar##giving it the ability to dip into a potentially vast pool of capital by packaging leases for photovoltaic systems into asset-backed notes that are sold to pension funds,

hedge funds and other deep-pocketed investors. Rive says Demandlogic should save commercial customers 20 percent in demand charges.

and Rive and Solarcity spokesman Jonathan Bass was sketchy on the details on how the economics pencil out

But growing economies of scale are in Solarcity and Tesla s favor.####In places with high costs of electricity,

Tesla and solar financier and installer Solarcity (Musk other energy company) have been quietly selling small volumes of Tesla batteries as energy storage paired with Solarcity solar projects.

#Solarcity Has a New Plan to Make Distributed Energy an Integral Part of the Grid Solarcity has an idea for how to help California utilities tap their own customers as an integral part of their billion-dollar distribution grid plans:

In a white paper this week, Solarcity wrote that the structure could be a key lever for customer-owned distributed energy resources (DERS) to compete for billions of dollars of distribution grid projects being planned by the state big three utilities.

said Ryan Hanley, Solarcity senior director of grid engineering solutions, in an interview. fter you find out what you can do with your pricing signals,

Solarcity proposes building some headroom into how the distribution loading order calculates the capacity of customer-owned DER,

As for how companies like Solarcity will go about proving their DERS can do what they say they can,

Solarcity CTO Peter Rive suggested at Thursday meeting that utilities be allowed to earn returns on distributed energy resources as-a-service. ou could meet that load growth with standalone solar.

Solarcity is already selling Tesla behind-the-meter batteries with its solar systems, and has been testing their ability to work in concert as an aggregated grid resource.

Third-party solar provider Solarcity, for example, has worked with HECO and Department of energy researchers to show that smart inverter technologies can allow more solar per circuit--an important concession for HECO,

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