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New England Grid Operator Puzzles in Microgrids and Energy Storage: Regional...
The good news in New England is that the trend is toward using lower-carbon fuels. The bad news is that grid managers are operating on thin margins and may have to rely on costlier measures to maintain...
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Move Over, Lithium Ion: Thermal Energy Storage Finds a Niche
Thermal storage is gaining ground in refrigeration applications, providing demand management for one of utilities’ most energy-intensive industries. Walk-in cold storage, Photo courtesy Viking Cold...
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Maine Lawmakers Revive Microgrid Bill as New Governor Creates a Pro-Green...
Microgrids that regulators determine “serve the public interest” are back in play in Maine this year as lawmakers try to pass a bill that fell short a year ago. Maine lawmakers revive microgrid bill....
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Microgrid 2019 Sets Participation Record. HG Chissell Returns as Master of...
Just six weeks away, this year’s annual microgrid conference — Microgrid 2019: Shaping the New Electric Grid — has set a new record for company participation. HG Chissell, founder and CEO of Advanced...
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New AC-DC Mobile Microgrid Holds Promise of More Efficient Power Distribution
A team at the University of Calgary plans to build a mobile microgrid that promises to improve the simultaneous distribution and management of both alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC)...
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How Massachusetts Compensates Battery Storage Owners for Energy Efficiency:...
When most people think of energy efficiency, they think of using fewer electrons. But the Clean Energy Group has an expanded definition — to shift energy usage from high peaks to low demand times. And...
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Why Aren’t There More Multi-User Microgrids?
When most people consider a microgrid, they think of on site generation serving a single business or an enclosed campus. But another concept is emerging called multi-user microgrids, which allows...
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Should Government Create Incentives for Microgrids? Industry Leaders to...
Government support for microgrids is scant in the US — an issue that industry leaders plan to tackle during a pre-conference workshop on microgrid policy leading up to Microgrid 2019. State and federal...
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Schneider and Carlyle Form New Venture to Pursue Fast-Growing Energy...
The Carlyle Group and Schneider Electric today announced a new joint venture, AlphaStruxure, to pursue what they see as a $1 trillion underinvestment in US infrastructure and a fast-growing market for...
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California Aggregator Seeks Microgrid Hosts as Part of Community Choice Program
Monterey Bay Community Power, a community choice aggregation in California, plans to develop microgrids and Friday released an application seeking customers to host projects. By...
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What Electrification of Transportation and Buildings Means to Microgrids:...
The energy industry is poised for what some describe as a sizable investment shift. Oil and gas lose, and power wins with the growing electrification of transportation and buildings. So what does this...
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Microgrid Policy: What Really Needs to be Done?
Navigant’s Peter Asmus provides an overview of US microgrid policy and identifies what’s most needed to drive microgrid adoption. Asmus will be presenting these ideas at a special Microgrid 2019...
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Why It’s Hard to Create a Network of Community Microgrids in California
Clean Coalition is on a mission to alter transmission access charges that the organization says unfairly boost the cost of local renewable energy and community microgrids in California. By...
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Microgrids “Shining Light” for US in World Energy Markets: Report
US growth lags globally when it comes to technologies used in electricity delivery and management with one exception — the microgrid market — says a new report by the advocacy group Advanced Energy...
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Alexa, Please Turn the Power Back on. Alexa? Alexa?
We worry about the big calamities like hurricanes and cyberattacks that cause long power outages. But let’s face it, for most of us momentary outages are more likely to disrupt our daily lives. Mike...
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Northeastern University Aims to Set New Standard for Higher Ed with Advanced...
Northeastern University says it is developing a microgrid that sets the bar for higher education, using a self-funded approach to harden its campus resiliency while achieving sustainability goals. Now...
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Second-Life Electric Vehicle Battery Storage Helps Power Eaton Microgrid in...
An Eaton production facility in Wadeville, South Africa is reducing its energy and operational costs beyond its expectations thanks to a microgrid that uses first and second life electric vehicle...
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Looking at Microgrids a New Way with DERMS
In an interview leading up to Microgrid 2019, Siemens’ Sacha Fontaine describes how microgrids and DERMS will shape the grid of tomorrow. If microgrids were purely backup power, it would be easy to...
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Clean Energy Patents: What’s Up, What’s Down and How Do the Trends Portend...
A new analysis of clean energy patents reveals increases in electric vehicles and smart green home patents, upswings in blockchain, and decreases in solar and other energy harvesting filings. Image by...
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Emory University Seeks Regulatory Support for Microgrid at its Atlanta Campus
Emory University is seeking support from Georgia regulators for a microgrid that would be built on its Atlanta campus. Emory University. Photo by EQRoy/Shutterstock.com The university is petitioning...
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