Do you want to reduce your carbon footprint and save a significant amount of money on energy? This is possible when you have a personal micro utility that includes wind and/or solar generation, grid connectivity, and energy storage.

Renewable energy generation depends on the sun shining and the wind blowing, so it’s not always there when you need it. With an Energy Computer, you can store surplus renewable energy and supplement it if necessary with off-peak (low cost) energy from the grid. In doing so, you are making renewable energy firm and dispatchable. This adds significant value to renewable energy whether you are using it locally in your home or releasing it back to the grid.

Additionally, any Energy Computer can communicate with any number of others by means of the Energy Operator System, creating virtual and aggregate power plants, so people in your energy network can exchange energy.

Renewable Energy for the Community

This personal micro utility model is particularly adaptable to the needs of communities, allowing them to work with utilities to make renewable energy firm, valuable, and secure for all.

New Value Propositions for Renewable Energy

The micro utility platform allows value to be realized not only from renewable energy generation, but also from energy efficiency, demand response programs, market transactions, and utility services. GELI’s Energy Computers can be placed anywhere in a utility’s system from homes and businesses to transformers. The Energy Operator System enables the balancing of electrical loads and extends load-shedding capability, allowing easy integration with demand response programs and aggregators.

Contact Growing Energy Labs Inc to find out more about the economics of a networked energy system that includes renewable energy + storage.