04/19/2021
Soleil Lofts, an apartment development in Herriman, has equipped every apartment in the 600-unit complex with a new ecoLinx battery made by the German company Sonnen. Charged via rooftop solar panels, these cells, roughly the size of a water heater, collectively form what’s called a virtual power plant. The system not only provides 12.6 megawatt-hours of backup power for the building, it also makes better use of the renewable power generated on site.
The Soleil Lofts in Herriman arrive at the intersection of several trends: transition toward cleaner, renewable power; the rapidly shrinking cost for batteries and energy storage; and a push by developers to reduce their environmental footprint.