Glossary Terms

Power plants that produce and supply electricity to adjacent homes and businesses on a grid scale. At this magnitude, solar energy has the potential to supplement or substitute power plants [...]

A technology facilitating the transfer of energy back to the power grid from the battery of an electric vehicle (EV). This technology allows an EV battery to discharge in response to various [...]

Technology closely resembling vehicle-to-grid technology, with the distinction that, rather than returning power to the grid, the electric vehicle (EV) battery supplies electricity to a [...]

Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology encompasses sensors, cameras, and wireless connectivity within vehicles, enabling the real-time exchange of information with drivers, other vehicles, [...]

A virtual power plant combines the power of hundreds, or even thousands, of distributed solar and energy storage systems to create a new kind of power plant that can reduce stress on the grid, [...]

Defined as the difference in electric potential between two points, voltage is a common way to measure the pressure of electricity traveling through power lines.

A unit of power measurement calculated in joules per second.

A unit of energy equivalent to one watt of power expended for one hour of time.

A naturally occurring, geological hydrogen found in underground deposits and created through fracking. There are no strategies to exploit this hydrogen at present.

Yellow hydrogen is a relatively new phrase for hydrogen made through water electrolysis, wherein the process is powered by electricity sourced from the energy grid. Historically associated with [...]