“But,” he adds, sounding more surprised than proud, “it certainly is the situation at this time.”“We basically make the battery do interesting things on the grid,” Harris explains. “It will let you store your solar energy during the day for use at night. But battery-backed solar energy held such promise that it quickly became the company’s main business. A virtual mob of new technologies is storming the rigid architecture of the Edison-era electric grid, promising radical improvements in its efficiency and usefulness. Take the experiment in Ontario when the government at the time agreed to pay for solar energy through its original Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program.

Source: thestar September 28, 2017 10:18 UTC