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Top Industry Perspective Columns for 2019 — Most Read Guest Articles
Have we fully explored the potential of community microgrids? What does California’s changing energy landscape mean for microgrids and the energy industry? How should you get started on your next...
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Microgrid Knowledge Names ‘Person’ of the Year and Announces Top Stories for...
Microgrid Knowledge doesn’t usually choose a person of the year, as Time magazine does. But 2019 produced such a runaway winner, it seemed necessary to do so. By ymgerman/Shutterstock.com The winner,...
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Are Microgrids Expensive?
Asking ‘Are microgrids expensive?’ is a bit like asking what rocks cost. Are we talking about diamonds or driveway gravel? Any discussion tends to be a long one. There is no elevator pitch answer for...
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Grassroots Push for Microgrid on Maine Island
A Maine-based non-profit group is hoping to build on ENMAX’s pending purchase of Emera Maine to create a microgrid on Mount Desert Island (MDI). The group — A Climate to Thrive (ACTT) — intervened late...
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Private Company Wants to Buy Utility on Hawaiian Island, Build Microgrids
Pulama Lanai is in exploratory discussions with Hawaiian Electric to buy the electric utility’s assets on the small Hawaiian island and is looking to build microgrids at the island’s two hotels as a...
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Frustrated with Outages, These Seniors Have Big Microgrid Plans, Even Bigger...
Outage-weary seniors in an Oakmont, California community have encountered numerous regulatory obstacles to their ambitious microgrid plans. Residents of Oakmont Village Association, whose average age...
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Microgrids Up and Running Despite Earthquake and Massive Power Outage in...
With a large swath of Puerto Rico in the dark as a result of this week’s earthquake, there is some good news from the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). Microgrids in 10 schools are up and running. The...
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Rural Neighborhood Chooses Off-Grid Microgrids Instead of Paying the Utility
For the Silvies Valley Ranch outside of Burns, Oregon, off-grid microgrids for each of 600 homes under development makes more financial sense than paying the local utility $7 million to run utility...
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Stop & Shop, Major Northeast Grocery Store Chain, to Install 40 Microgrids
Stop & Shop, a major retail chain in the US Northeast, announced today that it will install microgrids in 40 of its grocery stores in Massachusetts and New York. The microgrids will use Bloom...
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City/Utility Partnership Leads to Microgrid at Fire Station in Portland, Oregon
The city of Portland, with financial support from Portland General Electric (PGE), has installed a fire station microgrid that will not only ensure power for crucial services, but also train emergency...
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Xcel Energy to Build 7 Community Microgrids. Negotiating with Siemens and...
Xcel Energy is seeking regulatory approval to move forward with seven microgrids, at a cost to the utility of $23.4 million, chosen from a community resilience solicitation that the Colorado utility...
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Scale Microgrid Solutions Secures $300M Equity Commitment from Warburg Pincus
Scale Microgrid Solutions, a New Jersey-based microgrid company that focuses on commercial and industrial (C&I) customers, today announced that it has secured an equity commitment of up to $300...
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Final New Jersey Energy Master Plan Makes Way for Microgrids
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy this week unveiled the state’s energy master plan, which includes provisions to facilitate the proliferation of microgrids in the state. Atlantic City has proposed a 19.2 MW...
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Are Energy-as-a-Service Microgrids the Next Logical Step for California…and...
California often serves as a bellwether, and now it’s ringing an alarm about a new electric grid vulnerability. As other states brace for the impact of climate change, they watch California’s wildfires...
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Judge Rules Against Ban on Natural Gas Fuel Cells in Santa Clara, California
In a ruling that could affect microgrid options in California, a judge said Santa Clara, California, violated state law when it passed a resolution banning non-renewable fuels for distributed...
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How to Get to 100% Renewables? Use Microgrids Says Plan for Cranston, Rhode...
The Rhode Island Progressive Democrats have launched an ambitious project that aims to ensure the city of Cranston achieves 100% renewable energy by 2030 using a series of solar and wind microgrids, a...
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California PUC Urged to Give Non-Utilities a Fair Crack at Microgrid Projects
Shell Energy and Enel X are urging the California Public Utilities Commission to make sure non-utilities have a fair crack at providing microgrids in the state’s effort to ease the effects of planned...
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Utility Microgrids Come to California with Speed — and Invention
Utility microgrids are coming to California — and fast — according to plans filed before state regulators last week by the state’s three investor-owned utilities. By Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock.com At...
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Long Beach, Calif., Urges Regulatory Reforms to Overcome Microgrid Delays
Pointing to delays in getting a microgrid built, the city of Long Beach, California, is urging state regulators to make changes to speed up the process. Long Beach marina and shipping port. By Sergey...
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Snohomish County PUD Moves Forward on Microgrid
Construction has started on the next phase of a $12 million microgrid project being developed by Snohomish County Public Utility District in Washington state. The Arlington microgrid is designed to...
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