Microgrid News
MicrogridModeler Launches Browser-Based Solar and Storage Design
A transparent new platform brings hourly microgrid dispatch, storage economics, resilience testing and reviewable evidence into the browser.
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S&C, Ameren Successfully Test Microgrid with 100% Renewables
Smartgrid business S&C Electric Company and Illinois-based utility Ameren completed a "24-hour islanding test" earlier this month. According to Energy Storage News, the test deployed 100% renewables for a day and showed how a microgrid could move fluidly to…
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VPPs and DERMS: Moving Toward a Digital Grid with the Help of Artificial Intelligence and Transactive Energy
Distributed energy resources (DER): either you love them or you hate them. The technology empowers formerly passive customers to take their energy futures into their own hands, but DER also challenge utilities to move away from a world where they…
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Ameren Using Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Software to Integrate DERs into Utility-Scale Microgrid
Ameren is using Schneider's EcoStruxture Microgrid Advisor to integrate natural gas, solar, wind and battery energy storage capacity to the utility-scale hybrid microgrid it unveiled adjacent to the University of Illinois campus in Champaign this past May.
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Go Electric to Deploy $1.7 Million Advanced Battery Storage Microgrid at Tooele Army Depot in Utah
Indiana's Go Electric has come to specilize in developing and deploying secure, reliable and cost-effective low-emissions distributed energy resource and energy efficiency systems for the US Armed Forces, whose energy security, resilience and "green" energy drive continues on course.
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New Tesla Gigafactory Permits Reveal Plan to Build a Microgrid Lab
Tesla's Model 3 EV sdan is due to launch tomorrow, but solar PV energy storage and renewable/hybrid microgrids also loom large in Tesla's strategic plans as it continues to play a central, driving role in the evolution of a new digital, distirbuted "green" energy economy.
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Hanscom AFB Teams with Noresco to Realize $94 Million in Guaranteed Energy Savings
Hanscom AFB is slated to realize $94 million on a $46 million investment in the guaranteed energy savings performance contract with Noresco, the cornerstone of which will be a 4.6MW co-generation plant.
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Remote Alaska Areas Seek Energy Solutions in Microgrid Competition
Remote Northern communities face many challenges, including high food, and fuel costs. In past years, longer winters provided sturdy winter roads which would make it easier to bring in diesel, despite excessive transportation costs However, in today’s world, that sense…
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New Jersey PUB Approves 13 Town Center Microgrid Feasibility Studies
The Veolia Trenton Thermal Energy District Network would serves as the core and a technology hub for one of the 13 New Jersey town center microgrid proposals under consideration.
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Aggreko Acquires Advanced Battery Storage-Smart Microgrid Systems Pioneer Younicos for $52 Million
Aggreko and Younicos' chief executives waxed optimistic regarding the all-cash, GBP40 million acquisition and merger despite expectations Younicos will continue to lose money over the near term.
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IOTA Sets Stage for Zero-Cost Digital Energy Trading
Much more than a digital cryptocurrency, IOTA tokens are said to open gateways for individuals and organizations, or rather their digital, virtual proxies and automated software agents, to carry out activities across what IOTA expects and hopes will be a virtually limitless vista of distributed, peer-to-peer (P2P) Tangle network transaction and distributed ledger systems and applications, and at zero cost.
Read more →Enel Green Power Commissions World’s First, and Highest, 24x7 Solar-Hydrogen-Lithium Energy Storage Microgrid
The 24x7 solar-plus-storage microgrid now up and running at the Cerro Pabellon geothermal power plant in Chile's high and dry (very, very dry) Antofagasta region marks a distributed clean energy milestone for Enel Green Power, Chile's energy transition and more.
Read more →Green Energy Fund Washington Advancing Microgrids
A total of $7 million in grants was given by the Washington State Department's Clean Energy Fund, as state utilities look to develop their microgrid programs. According to Solar Industry Mag.com, Avista in Spokane and Snohomish County Public Utility…
Read more →Ameren Launches Utility-Voltage Microgrid Serving Illinois University
Midwest utility powerhouse Ameren is attempting to turn a potential disruptor into a business opportunity at their Technology Application Center (TAC), where they claim to have one of the most advanced microgrids in North America. The facility is adjacent to…
Read more →Microgrids without Subsidy? Check Out the C&I Market
Microgrids often need some form of policy support. This is especially so for microgrids that are deployed for a public purpose, such as community resilience. Because utility distribution microgrids face a higher regulatory standard, they also often incur a premium…
Read more →EverGreenCoin Renewables Aims To Support Solar Power
Over the past two years, we’ve seen a growing connection between cryptocurrency technology and environmental efforts. This is a partnership not many people were talking about when bitcoin first emerged and launched the era of cryptocurrency, but we’re now beginning…
Read more →India’s Juice Power Moves Forward with Solar Microgrids Program
Italy's TerniEnergia is to build the first of Juice Power's planned three smart grid-connected solar-storage microgrids, which will be located at commercial and industrial sites in Bangalore, Calcutta and Mumbai.
Read more →Public-Private Partnership Results in Low-Carbon Community Microgrid for Blue Lake Rancheria Native American Tribe
Joining with the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe, Siemens, REC Solar, Tesla, the Idaho National Laboratory and Humboldt State Uiversity launched a solar PV-battery energy storage community microgrid in northern California.
Read more →Strong Growth in 1Q Venture Capital Smart Grid, Energy Efficiency Funding
A new generation of battery-based energy storage, energy efficiency and smart grid technologies are being combined to serve as core elements of zero or low-emissions microgrids designed to aggregate and manage networks of distributed energy resources (DERs) in residential and…
Read more →Demand Energy Breaks Ground on Groundbreaking Solar-Storage Microgrid in New York City
The Marcus Garvey Village community microgrid marks several New York grid power firsts, including the first instance of "behind the meter" solar PV plus energy storage being incorporated in Con Edison's Brooklyn-Queens Neighborhood demand management program.
Read more →Chilean Solar-Storage Microgrid Provider Rolls Out Cloud Billing, Customer Care Service
The first to offer residential and mid-scale "behind the meter" solar-storage microgrids and information services in Chile, Amigo Solar is one of a small but growing roster of independent power producers fueling emergence of a new class of sustainable energy "prosumers."
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