Sonnen Execs Discuss Competitive Advantages, Growth Plans in Home Energy Storage

“Instead of talking the talk, we walk the walk.”

Julia Pyper February 03, 2017

Julia Pyper

Senior Editor
Greentech Media

Julia Pyper is a Senior Editor at Greentech Media covering the energy transition. She is also the host and producer of the Political Climate podcast. She previously reported for E&E Publishing, and has covered clean energy and climate change issues across the U.S. and abroad, including in India, Haiti, Israel and the Maldives. She holds degrees from McGill and Columbia Universities. Find her on Twitter @JMPyper.

While Tesla captures more headlines, German residential storage company Sonnen currently leads in global product deployments.

Today, Sonnen has more than 15,000 battery installations around the world, the vast majority of which are located Germany. But the company also has a growing U.S.-based business, with monthly unit sales now in the three digits -- just one year after the company's U.S. market launch.

GTM sat down with CEO Christopher Ostermann and Blake Richetta, vice president of North American sales, to discuss Sonnen's competitive advantages in the home battery arena and how the company plans to grow in the months ahead. Watch below via Facebook Live.