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What’s Driving the Increasing Use of Microgrids in Manufacturing?
More manufacturing companies are gaining interest in deploying microgrids to help them operate through power outages and serve as community stewards. Tor Anderson, Power Engineers In the past,...
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Building a Microgrid that Stands its Ground in the Storm-tossed Caribbean
The Caribbean islands, especially the northern islands that include The Bahamas, are often hit hard by hurricanes and storms that can knock out power and cut off essential services. As a result, the...
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California Makes Big Move on Solarizing Commercial Buildings
The California Energy Commission has approved first-of-its-kind building standards to spur solar and battery storage — often components in microgrids — in a range of new commercial buildings. By...
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Is Oversizing Renewable Energy the Key to Net Zero?
Often policymakers and planners assume that renewables plus storage are too expensive to bring online in large quantities, but a new report from the independent think tank RethinkX challenges that...
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Endurant Enters High-Tech AG Sector with $30 Million Microgrid
Endurant Energy jumped into the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) sector with a roughly $30 million microgrid project for Bluehouse Greenhouse, a company building a high-tech 62-acre greenhouse...
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Microgrid Integration Without Costly Scope Gaps
In the sixth and final article of this new special report series brought to you by Microgrid Knowledge and Siemens, we’re presenting the fifth and final step in our definitive guide for microgrid...
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Utility Asks California Agency to Reverse Decision Waiving Standby Charges...
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) this week asked the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to reverse its decision to waive a key component of standby charges for microgrids, saying it...
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UK Minting It in Microgrids
The Royal Mint at Llantrisant in Wales has signed a tender agreement with renewable energy company Infinite to install an integrated energy and microgrid development — what Infinite calls a local...
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California Looks to Bigger, More Complex Microgrids as It Faces Capacity...
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) made two big moves on microgrids this week, opening a proceeding to tackle the thorny issue of multiproperty microgrids, while also launching a...
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Microgrids Power Through Haiti Earthquake
After a devastating earthquake hit Haiti last week, EarthSpark International temporarily de-energized its 100-kW community microgrid in Les Anglais to check for downed wires and await possible...
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Washington State Provides Funds for Nine Microgrids
Washington State announced $3.9 million in grants from the state’s Clean Energy Fund on Aug. 25, to design and build 18 electric grid modernization projects, including microgrids. Snohomish County PUD...
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California Utility Tests Linear Generator to Reduce Diesel Use at Napa County...
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is deploying a 240-kW linear generator at a distribution system microgrid to see if the emerging technology can be used to reduce the use of diesel generators during...
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What Are the Best Locations for Microgrids? Hawaii Is Mapping Them.
In an effort to spur microgrid development, Hawaiian Electric is working with the US Department of Energy (DOE) and other partners to develop a microgrid map that pinpoints areas across its service...
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How Many Hurricanes Must Slam the Grid Before We Get the Message?
The electric grid’s dysfunctional relationship with hurricanes offers a new twist on the Humpty-Dumpty story. Again and again when fierce storms like Hurricane Ida topple wires and poles, all the...
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US Rep. Panetta to Deliver Microgrid California Keynote
Congressman Jimmy Panetta, a Democrat from California, will be the keynote speaker at Microgrid California: Keeping the Power Flowing During Grid Disruption, a one-day regional event to be hosted by...
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Microgrid Advocates Push Back as Utility Challenges Standby Rate Change
Responding to a utility rehearing request, microgrid advocates are urging California regulators to uphold their decision to slash a major part of standby charges for eligible microgrids, highlighting...
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Solar Microgrid Proposed for Southern California Army Airfield
The Joint Forces Training Base-Los Alamitos Army Airfield in Orange County, California, is planning on hosting a 30-MW solar microgrid. The California Army National Guard, which operates the airfield,...
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Pandemic Created Slowdown but Didn’t Stop Completion of Snohomish County...
Snohomish County Public Utility District (PUD), the second largest public utility in Washington state, started construction on its long-planned airport microgrid in Arlington, Washington, just a few...
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US’ Largest County — Los Angeles — Proposes Agency to Support Microgrids in a...
The County of Los Angeles last week made an eye-opening proposal — a $41 million program that includes a regional microgrid agency to serve an area that encompasses roughly half of California’s...
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During Earthquakes and Fires, Oregon Military Microgrid Can Serve the...
In Oregon, earthquakes and fires are the biggest disaster worry, and the Oregon Military Department (OMD) wants to be ready with a newly deployed military microgrid in the city of Dallas that can...
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