The Weekly Calistogan, Feb 26, 2020, by Tim Carl and Mackenzie Carl
When power went out in Northern California during PG&E’s series of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) last fall, thousands of households and businesses went dark. But a few kept their lights on.
Energy News Network, Oct 17, 2019, by Allen Best
The Basalt Vista housing project in Basalt, Colorado is eschewing natural gas to reduce its consumption of fossil fuels, making a bold statement about future energy use.
Business Wire September 19, 2019 SimpliPhi Power, a California-based manufacturer of non-toxic, safe, residential, commercial and mobile energy storage systems and Heila Technologies have announced a partnership to deliver a dynamic platform that aggregates multiple customer-cited SimpliPhi battery systems into a ‘virtual’ power plant. Read Announcement
pv magazine August 15, 2019 By William Driscoll How Colorado’s Holy Cross Energy is working toward 70% clean energy in 2030 by piloting a household-scale virtual powerplant technology to integrate rooftop solar and storage using Heila EDGE. Read Story
Wicked Local Sommerville January 11, 2019 As a proud recipient of the InnovateMass Award, Heila Technologies received $249,052 to support its peer-to-peer, distributed energy resources optimization framework for microgrid applications. Heila’s goal is to use this funding to help accelerate the adoption of clean energy at the grid’s edge by developing new control and optimization…
June 20, 2018 Clean Technica By Kyle Field CleanTechnica spoke with Heila Technologies co-founder and CEO Francisco Morocz about Heila’s history, products and the direction of the company. Read Story
Microgrid Knowledge May 7, 2018 Craig Wooster and Jorge Elizondo In this presentation from the Microgrid 2018 Conference, Craig Wooster, project manager and general contractor for the Stone Edge Farm Microgrid Project, and Jorge Elizondo, co-founder of Heila Technologies, discuss this leading-edge Microgrid Project and the critical role of the Heila iq platform in its…
Environment + Energy Leader February 26, 2018 by Alyssa Danigelis In this overview of the Stone Edge Farm Estate and Winery Microgrid, Mac McQuown discusses his vision for the Stone Edge Farm Microgrid, and the first true test of the microgrid: the 2017 Sonoma wildfires. It was through this test that Heila co-founder Jorge Elizondo…
Microgrid Knowledge October 27, 2017 By Lisa Cohn The story of the Stone Edge Farm Microgrid and the 2017 Sonoma, California Wildfires that tested and confirmed the vision of the creators. This article gives the full story and highlights Heila’s significant role in keeping the islanded microgrid running. Read Story
Yale Climate Connections March 17, 2017 By Eileen Mignoni Heila Technologies’ Jorge Elizondo comments on the possibilities of making microgrids simpler and more affordable and adding more clean energy to the nation’s energy mix. Using a device like the Heila iQ eliminates the need for expert installation and customization. Read Story