Silent Power’s Neighborhood Solar Batteries By Jeff St. John Jun. 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT Solar panels make electricity when the sun shines, but the suburbs start using the most power when the mases come home from work (ie. night falls). How can utilities shift that solar energy from day to dusk, when it’s most needed? This week, [...]

Sacramento Municipal Utility District Teams With Silent Power for Solar Storage Pilot Project MINNEAPOLIS (June 14, 2010) – Silent Power, a renewable technology company that designs distributed energy storage systems to maximize the value of renewable power resources, today announced it will supply the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) with distributed energy storage technology to [...]

Silent Power was asked to participate in a round table discussion yesterday regarding the business of the Smart Grid and the benefits for Minnesota companies and workforce.  The meeting was sponsored by the Minnesota Trade Office and the University of Minnesota.  Pictured above is John Frederick of Silent Power presenting the business case for Silent Power and [...]

Silent Power Selected for Green Energy Grant from the Minnesota Office of Energy Security Silent Power is selected to receive $560,000 in federal funding through a Minnesota renewable energy grant program. MINNEAPOLIS (June 7, 2010) – Silent Power, a Minnesota-based renewable technology company that designs distributed energy storage systems to maximize the value of renewable [...]

California Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, working in partnership with California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr., has introduced A.B.2514. The new legislation would mandate that utilities incorporate energy storage capacity into their operations: 2.25% of daytime peak demand for power by 2014 and 5% of peak demand by 2020. Skinner and Brown maintain that enacting the [...]

Our latest creation, the OnDemand Energy Appliance was sent to Vancouver Canada today.  Unfortunately this has nothing to do with the 2010 Winter Olympics, but was sent to CSA International to start the UL / CSA approval process.  The team at CSA does an excellent job and does all of our compliance testing.  We look [...]