Maxeon launches SunPower One home energy option, 'eager' for new product partnerships

May 6, 2022 10:52 AM ET
  • Maxeon Solar Technologies has launched its SunPower One incorporated home energy service, created to proactively suggest home owners on methods to optimize their power use.
Maxeon launches SunPower One home energy option, 'eager' for new product partnerships
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The system aims to permit customers higher control over their residential energy intake by learning about a house owner's pattern of electrical energy intake and then recommending techniques to decrease energy costs.

For instance, Maxeon said SunPower One can determine 'always on' tools in the home that deserve turning off to minimize energy usage during periods of high power rates.

" It can also reveal malfunctioning devices that may need a fixing or substitute based upon their abnormal electrical power signals," the Singapore-headquartered firm said.

Chief executive officer of Maxeon, Jeff Waters, said SunPower One would certainly "change the customer experience" and keep house owners "informed with actionable power insights within their home, helping make their houses much more effective and also much more sustainable".

Maxeon said SunPower One had the potential, when coupled with certain items, to enable "wise use instances that raise self-consumption", such as billing an electrical vehicle (EV) with excess solar production and also running dishwashers or home heating and cooling down systems at ideal times.

In the beginning, SunPower One will certainly be solely packaged with Maxeon's new SunPower Get all-in-one storage space offering but, over the course of the year, the business has strategies to grow system compatibility to incorporate additional products in classifications like EV billing, along with software program integrations and also value-added services.

" SunPower One's open and flexible ecological community will certainly grow in time," claimed Maxeon principal item police officer Ralf Elias. "We are eager to welcome new partnerships with category leaders throughout the market that will help equip our end-customers to drive more energy cost savings."

In addition, SunPower one will give an installer-specific digital environment to facilitate the sales and installment of the service. Maxeon said that under one account installers will certainly have accessibility to quoting as well as style devices, marketing and also training support and also automated digital procedures to streamline the experience.

The service will be available to installers as well as end users in Australia in Q3 2022 and also will certainly be rolled out to other international markets, except for the US and Canada, during the remainder of 2022 as well as beyond.

In associated information, Maxeon and Canadian Solar have actually settled an arrangement on a patent infringement lawsuit in Japan that will see Canadian Solar withdraw any kind of challenges to Maxeon's patent on shingled solar cell modules as well as cease to offer shingled solar cell modules in Japan up until the second quarter of 2025.

The business said it was close to a "changed Maxeon Solar Technologies" in its Q3 2021 financial outcomes after it resolved its logistical failures, experienced strong need for its products and landed a supply contract with United States residential installer SunPower following a hard 2021.




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