Growing Energy Labs, Inc: Creating the Internet of Energy

Everyone would like to run the world on electricity generated from renewable sources; however, these sources are often unreliable because they are absent when conditions change, such as when the sun...
Capturing sunlight to power our homes at night has been one of the key problems businesses and scientists have been trying to solve. Growing Energy Labs, Inc, a participant in the Clean Tech Open, is sharing an idea that could revolutionize the way solar energy is stored.
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Everyone would like to run the world on electricity generated from renewable sources; however, these sources are often unreliable because they are absent when conditions change, such as when the sun goes down or the wind isn’t blowing. As a solution, we propose building an Internet of Energy in which everyone can operate a personal micro utility at their home or business.

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A micro utility is a networked energy system that enables the storage of electricity from any source (renewable or otherwise) in your own home or business. It is connected to a network that tracks its economic value and the exchange of peer-to-peer energy through the electrical grid. All of this is possible with the convergence of Internet communications and lower-cost, longer-lived storage devices.

Growing Energy Labs, Inc is a participant in the Clean Tech Open.

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