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Three Paths Ahead as Utility Microgrids Reach Inflexion Point: Navigant
Utility microgrids are at an inflexion point, according to a new report from Navigant Research. Duke Energy and Schneider Electric partnered to develop a microgrid at a public safety facility in...
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Storage is the Boss for Utility-Scale Microgrid Yielding 70% Renewables
A utility-scale microgrid that uses energy storage has slashed the use of diesel fuel and allowed for up to 70 percent renewables to serve a Portuguese Island, Graciosa. Gracio project. Photo courtesy...
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Study Finds Large Potential for Solar and Community Microgrids in San Diego
San Diego — already one of California’s greenest cities — has the potential to develop 2 GW of solar, opening up new opportunity for community microgrids, according to the Clean Coalition. The...
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The Rise of Microgrids and DERs: Out of Competition Came Innovation
What was the impetus for the rise of microgrids and distributed energy resources? What role did competition play? A new special report from Microgrid Knowledge and NRG Energy explores the industry’s...
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How to Keep Africa’s Minigrids from Becoming a Bridge to Nowhere
A push is on to bring electricity to the nearly one billion people who lack it worldwide. But if you build it will they come? Apparently not, as some minigrid developers are finding in Sub-Saharan...
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Microgrid Drivers and Obstructions: What’s Moving the Dial on the Market?
A new special report from Microgrid Knowledge and Schneider Electric outlines the energy-as-a-service (EaaS) model that simplifies microgrid development and ownership for organizations. This excerpt...
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Microgrids Can Protect Public Health. So Why Aren’t We Using More that Way?
Microgrids can protect public health during power outages by keeping the water clean, ensuring medical facilities are running, and keeping people cool during dangerous heat waves. But a number of...
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Big Win for Local Energy: First Virtual Power Plant Snags Contract in US...
Sunrun last week became the first company to win a contract to supply capacity to a wholesale power market from a virtual power plant — solar energy and storage aggregated from homes. By Olivier Le...
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Understanding the Energy-as-a-Service Model for Microgrids
Almost 25 percent of microgrids today use the Energy-as-a-Service Model, also know as EaaS. In this selection from a new special report from Microgrid Knowledge and Schneider Electric, we break down...
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Hawaii Traverses New Ground with Microgrid Tariff
Hawaii is traversing new ground as state regulators, its utility and other stakeholders work on what may become the first full microgrid tariff in the United States. A microgrid tariff may help assure...
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Sophisticated ‘Air Gap Microgrids,’ Invisible to the Utility
‘Air gap microgrids’ — DC microgrids electrically separated from the utility — open up the opportunity for installing and adapting microgrids with fewer permitting requirements and less strain on the...
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Thailand Petroleum Co. Tests Commercial Microgrid with Blockchain for Mall...
Bangchak Corporation Public Co. Limited (BCP), a petroleum refiner in Thailand, is testing and demonstrating a commercial microgrid and blockchain energy trading platform at a community shopping mall...
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How Utilities Will Thrive — Eventually — with a DER-rich Grid
In the near term, utilities need to beware. The next two years bring strong risk that customers will go off-grid with rooftop solar and other distributed energy resources (DERs) while using the utility...
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Military Microgrids Featured at Microgrid 2019 in San Diego, May 14-16
Microgrid 2019 will highlight the US armed forces’ growing use of military microgrids as a means to improve energy resilience, strengthen cybersecurity, and green its facilities. Courtesy of Mick...
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Off-Grid Minigrids to Bring Sustainable Energy to 160,000 in Tanzania
An ambitious project is underway to install minigrids for more than 160,000 off-grid villagers on islands in Lake Victoria. JUMEME solar minigrid project in Lake Victoria, Tanzania. Courtesy of RP...
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Here’s What’s Driving Energy Storage Markets — and How to Benefit
Energy storage markets are growing quickly, driven by regulations, demand charges, plus utilities’ need to integrate solar into the grid and avoid building new peaking power plants. By...
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Montecito Community Microgrid Emerges from Mudslides and Wildfires
A little more than a year ago, California’s Ventura and Santa Barbara counties suffered from a month-long fire that destroyed 1,000 structures. And a month later, in January 2018, heavy rains drenched...
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Massachusetts and California Rank High in Energy Democracy: Report
Massachusetts, California, New York and Illinois are the top four states for energy democracy, as ranked by their commitment to boosting community-level renewable energy, according to a second annual...
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How to Use Cleaner Diesel in Microgrids
We often think of diesel as dirty, and view renewable microgrids as one way to eliminate the use of diesel and other fossil fuels. However, more and more, diesel-backed microgrids can be cleaner, if...
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Microgrid 2019 Update: Applications Now Being Accepted for the Microgrid...
Project developers are in search of microgrid financing; financiers are in search of investment-grade projects. Microgrid 2019 offers a platform to bring the two together in year two of the Microgrid...
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