smart homes

Google’s smart home division has joined Ford, Sunpower, Sunrun in partnership centred around scaling market for virtual power plants (VPP).

Maxeon’s interim CEO talks to PV Tech about capacity expansions, smart home solutions and the company’s search for a new CEO.

Huawei's Steven Zhou discusses the company's residential inverter system that it hopes to put at the heart of an emerging smart home ecosystem.

The first ‘smart neighbourhood’ in the US state of Georgia is being created by utility Georgia Power and homebuilder PulteGroup, with each home equipped with solar PV, battery energy storage and other smart, clean and distributed energy resources.

What does it mean to be all things to all people? Does it overstretch resources to breaking point, or does it give you a chance to cast a wider net and capture market share? Vivint Solar recently joined Tesla in a race to offer whole packages including solar, storage, EV charging and other components to US customers. We talked to GTM Research's Brett Simon on some of the dynamics of those parallel strategies.