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Think of the cost to shut those mines down and bring the land back from a black hole in the ground to landscaped?
"SunPower Corp. and distributed energy storage specialist Sunverge Energy have announced an exclusive agreement to offer SunPower’s fully integrated solar power systems and Sunverge’s advanced Solar Integration System (SIS) energy storage solutions to residential customers and utilities in the US and Australia.
The two companies are providing a similar offering to Australian customers. SunPower and Sunverge expect to make combined solar and storage solutions broadly commercially available in early 2015.
Over the next five years, we expect to see a disruptive shift in the energy market, with solar power, energy storage, smart devices, energy management technologies and electric vehicles being combined,
The SunPower chief exec added the smart energy solution would “deliver unprecedented levels of personalization, value and control. Providing this integrated solution to utilities allows them to access the benefits of rooftop solar and storage at significant scale."
