A Milestone Year in Review
As the sun sets on 2022, it is time to reflect on the past year’s impact on the energy industry and celebrate all that Stem has accomplished over the last 12 months. Looking back, I am proud to say we remained true to our mission of accelerating the clean energy transition. We maintained our focus […]
Stem Employee Insights Series: Sushain Sharma, Managing Director
“The Stem and AlsoEnergy leadership carries extensive experience, knowledge, and expertise in this industry and has created a performance-driven culture that rewards enterprise and offers a great environment for the people and the organization to grow.” – Sushain Sharma, Managing Director – Stem India Tell us about yourself and your background. I come from […]
Stem Employee Insights Series: Veena Patel, Technical Product Manager
Tell us about yourself and your background. Since I was a child, I always wanted to be in the sustainability, climate, and technology space. I earned a bachelor’s degree in Geophysics and a master’s degree in Energy Resources Engineering from Stanford University with a Dean’s award for academic achievement. That education was a good fit […]
Stem Employee Insights Series: Jeff Harrell, Director of Product, Energy Storage
Tell us about yourself and your background. My early background was in manufacturing automation as a field applications engineer and product manager in the electronics industry, working alongside customers to ensure that systems met their needs. This automation experience led to an opportunity in renewables early in the shift to clean energy adoption. I started […]
Stem’s All-in-One Bundles for Solar and Storage Providers
Stem is happy to announce our new, limited product bundles designed for EPCs and anyone who sells solar or energy storage projects. These All-in-One bundles enable you to take advantage of the new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2023 and beyond so that you can build projects cheaper and faster with leading solutions from Stem […]
Stem Employee Insights Series: Ian Collamore, Manager of Developer Partner Sales
Tell us about yourself and your background. I’m originally from the Greater Boston area where I grew up in Lexington, just west of Boston. For the last decade or so, I’ve been bouncing around both coasts. I was in the Northern California Bay Area for four years, moved to San Diego for four years, and […]
Stem’s Inflation Reduction Act Insights: How Asset Owners can Maximize the Value of the Solar PTC
https://vimeo.com/747765785 What is the Inflation Reduction Act’s Solar Production Tax Credit? The Inflation Reduction Acts (IRA) made solar projects eligible to take the Production Tax Credit (PTC). Under the PTC, solar earns a credit for each kilowatt hour (kWh) generated for the first 10 years of a project’s life. That equates to a current value […]
Stem’s Inflation Reduction Act Insights: New eMobility Opportunities for EV Fleet Operators
https://vimeo.com/745145850 How will the Inflation Reduction Act create any opportunities for fleet operators looking to electrify their vehicles? There is a lot to be excited about in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for fleet operators looking to electrify their fleets. The incentives baked into the IRA really fall into two categories: The first are incentives […]
Stem’s Inflation Reduction Act Insights: Expected Impacts for New or Retrofit Solar and Storage Projects
https://vimeo.com/744695166 How should Stem customers and partners expect the Inflation Reduction Act to impact their projects? The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will have an immediate impact on clean energy projects as many of the tax credit revisions went into effect as soon as the bill was signed. Solar or standalone storage projects that are currently […]
Stem’s Inflation Reduction Act Insights: Direct Pay for Public Power Utilities and Electric Cooperatives
https://vimeo.com/742434927 What is the Inflation Reduction Act’s direct pay option for public utilities and electric cooperatives, and how should they be preparing to take advantage of energy storage and solar tax credits? Under the ITC, or investment tax credit as we’ve known it to date, project donors are able to recover a portion of their […]
Stem’s Inflation Reduction Act Insights: An Overview for our Customers and Energy Storage
https://vimeo.com/740385320 What’s your take on the Inflation Reduction Act? Once in a generation. Milestone. Historic. These are all really good ways to think about the Inflation Reduction Act. It is a $369 billion first-of-its-kind climate and clean tech investment. We’ve never done anything like this in US history. Here at Stem, we think there are […]
Stem Employee Insights Series: Boris Tjhia, Financial Analysis Engineer
Tell us about yourself and your background I graduated from the University of California San Diego with a double major in economics and material science and engineering. I’ve always been interested in the renewable energy industry space, so when an opportunity arrived to join Stem, I took it without hesitation and I haven’t looked back […]
Mitigating Price Volatility in ERCOT with Smart Energy Storage
In Texas, springtime means fields of blooming bluebonnets, but this year’s spring also brought record-breaking temperatures to 2022. If that is any indication of the weather this summer, it’s going to be a hot one. The expectation of formidable summer heat waves is splitting nerves in ERCOT. Volatile electricity pricing, power shutoffs, and reduced margins […]
Webinar Recap: An Introduction to AlsoEnergy’s PowerTrack Solar Software
Stem’s recent webinar, An Introduction to AlsoEnergy’s PowerTrack Solar Software, showcases the combined vision of Stem + AlsoEnergy; our solutions for C&I customers, EPCs, utilities and asset managers; and includes a demo of PowerTrack and use cases for solar + storage asset optimization. This must-see webinar is available on demand here. The remainder of this […]
How AI-driven Energy Storage Can Help Public Power in the Clean Energy Transition
Serving more than 2,000 communities across the U.S., the task of transitioning to a clean energy economy rests in large part with Public Power – publicly-owned electric utilities that operate as divisions of local governments. According to the American Public Power Association, 10% of electricity generated in the U.S. is from public power facilities. These […]
How CCAs Can Maximize Value Through Battery Storage Procurements
This blog takes a deep dive into best practices for Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) to procure battery storage. These best practices, along with additional information on drivers of energy storage value and how to capture that value, are discussed in further detail in Stem’s webinar, How California CCAs Can Leverage Battery Energy Storage Successfully. You […]
Webinar Recap: How California CCAs Can Leverage Battery Energy Storage Successfully
Presented by Stem’s Mike Alter and Carolyn Collins Stem works with Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) electricity providers looking to deploy smart energy storage. In May 2022, leaders from the Stem team presented a webinar — now available on demand here — about how energy storage can be used by CCAs. While we encourage you to […]
How Stem Helps Asset Owners & IPPs Increase Project Revenue
The global market for energy storage systems is rapidly growing and evolving. Global energy storage deployments nearly tripled in 2021 compared to 2020 and reached 12 GW / 28 GWh, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie. This blog explains several factors that are driving this growth as well as how Stem is on […]
Q&A with Edison Electric Institute (EEI): Energy Trends among Government, Electric Companies, and Developers
The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is the association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electric companies. Its members provide electricity for more than 220 million Americans, and operate in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. As an Associate Member of EEI, Stem supports its mission and aligns with its public policy leadership and strategic […]
Webinar Recap: Smart Energy Storage for Water Districts
Hosted by Melanie Medina, Event Manager at Association of California Water Agencies The webinar was presented by Stem experts Zach Einterz and Pouyan Farzanehkariwho have over 25 years of energy experience between them. The agenda included: About Stem Use cases for battery storage Evaluating successful energy storage projects Case studies of water & wastewater treatment […]
