By Shawn Allred | January 26, 2022
Batteries are coming to your grid soon! One of the more exciting and impactful grid modernization technologies is utility-scale battery storage. Battery storage can give utilities greater flexibility when operated alongside renewables, lower peak demand, flatten the daily demand curve[…]
By Jonathan Susser | December 16, 2021
In our final Exploring North Carolina Smart Grid webinar of 2021, we checked in on the status of solar energy in North Carolina. The session featured John Gajda, principal engineer at Strata Clean Energy; Maura Farver, distributed energy technology strategy[…]
By David Farmer | September 24, 2021
Wind energy is clean, sustainable, renewable and domestic, and it is one of the fastest growing energy sources in the world. With declining costs and improvements in technology, wind is quickly becoming cost-competitive with other generation resources, but harnessing it[…]
By Jonathan Susser | July 22, 2021
Advanced Energy is excited to welcome Bec Alderson as an engineer with the distributed generation team. Bec grew up in Efland, North Carolina, moved to Durham for high school, and then headed to Raleigh to attend NC State University. Bec[…]
By Luke Henry | June 27, 2020
You’ve done the research and have decided to install solar at your home. What’s next to keep the process moving? To know what else to expect and get the system, installer and agreement that meet your needs, here are a[…]
By Luke Henry | May 20, 2020
Looking into home solar can be exciting but also a bit daunting. Below, we outline a few areas worth knowing about, including components, characteristics, locations, sizing, layout, orientation and additional costs of installing a solar photovoltaic (PV) system. Solar Components[…]
By Jonathan Susser | February 24, 2020
Formed by Advanced Energy in 2003, NC GreenPower is a nonprofit whose mission is to expand public knowledge and acceptance of cleaner energy technologies to all North Carolinians through local, community-based initiatives. In April 2015, NC GreenPower launched a new[…]
By Jonathan Susser | February 17, 2020
Solar technology has been growing rapidly throughout the U.S., but it has been around for decades, and we at Advanced Energy are proud to have supported it every step of the way. In our early years, we promoted awareness of[…]
By Jonathan Susser | October 2, 2019
NC GreenPower, Advanced Energy’s renewable energy subsidiary, is excited to welcome Kimberly Walsh as an administrative assistant. Kimberly was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but spent most of her childhood and young adulthood in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from[…]
By Jonathan Susser | August 12, 2019
Curt and his wife, Vesna, are putting the finishing touches on an off-grid cabin outside their home in Pittsboro, North Carolina. The 220-square-foot, heated and ventilated, 1-bedroom space has been a year-long side project for the couple. When it is[…]