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Interview with Green Charge Networks: Building and Factory Owners must Focus on Power Efficiency

We recently interviewed Vic Shao, CEO of Green Charge Networks, an intelligent energy storage company based in Silicon Valley, and discussed some really interesting topics around Distributed Energy, Solar PV and Energy Efficiency. How enthused are US Electrical Utilities in welcoming Distributed Energy? Can you quote any examples of how they are working together with manufactures and their clients to bring it about? The reality is that collectively, electric utilities are spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year to maintain and upgrade the distribution grid with more copper. A mix of distributed storage and software intelligence can do the job at 3X – 10X less. Everyone wins in the long run if we can extract higher efficiency out of the hardware assets we have already deployed on the grid. GCN has been collaborating with Con Edison of New York over the past 4 years to bring distributed energy storage into reality for the New […]

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