California Climate & Energy Collaborative

Swell Energy picks autogrid to optimize thousands of home batteries

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“Swell Energy has joined forces with AutoGrid to create North America’s largest network of residential batteries dispatched for grid benefits. The Los Angeles-based storage startup has a contract with utility Southern California Edison to install batteries in 3,000 homes, which the utility will be able to control as grid assets. That contract weathered an unexpected…

Southern California alternative energy provider goes with a (more expensive) known entity

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“Ventura County as well as Camarillo, Moorpark, Ojai, Oxnard, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks and Ventura have joined the community choice aggregator, which offers an alternative to Southern California Edison and other traditional power companies. Currently, Edison “bundles” services to customers, and that includes generating, transmitting and distributing the energy. The Clean Power Alliance will still…