BoxPower has found a new niche, selling stand-alone solar power units to utilities to provide their customers remote power, which is far cheaper in some cases than hardening electric grids to withstand wildfires.
The company recently sold one of its units to Liberty Utilities, which supplies electricity to a remote university research station about 20 miles north of Lake Tahoe.
“Utilities are regulated, and they are required to provide power to their clients,” said Anderson Barkow, chief financial…
