Microgrid News
A Solar-Storage Microgrid for Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Small in size at 10-kW of solar power and 95-kWh of zinc-iron battery energy storage, the proposed project nonetheless highlights the leading role the National Park Service and other branches of the Federal government can and are playing in reducing greenhouse gas emissions reductions and ramping up use of local renewable energy resources.
Read more →LO3 Energy Takes Blockchain Microgrid Energy Trading Platform Down Under
Brooklyn, NY-based LO3 Energy is leveraging initial demo installations in the U.S. in a bid to expand globally. Management on Nov. 3 announced it has established itself in Byron Bay, Australia where it is in discussions with local energy market players to build demo installations and pilot P2P energy trading platforms based on Ethereum smart contracts and blockchain RDBMS technology.
Read more →U.S. Solar Developer Renewvia Brings Electricity to Rural Areas in Kenya and Developing Countries With Pay-As-You-Go Microgrids
U.S.-based solar developer, Renewvia Energy , is bringing electricity to rural communities in Kenya and other developing countries through pay-as-go solar micro-grids. Most of these communities will be experiencing use of electricity for the first-time. The microgrids are servicing people…
Read more →Microgrid Controller Competition Announced By NREL
The Microgrid Controller Innovation Challenge is one of four initiatives launched under the U.S. Department of Energy-Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's new $2.5 million Lab-Bridge program.
Read more →Twenty Megawatt Solar-Storage Microgrid Installed at the ¨Roof of the World¨
Up and running in Shuanghu on the Tibetan plateau, Sungrow's PV solar-energy storage microgrid provides affordable, reliable emissions-free electricity to more than 14,000 residents.
Read more →Haiti Microgrid Developer Wakes Up To Daunting New Role In Wake Of Hurricane Matthew
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, Sigora was on hand to support emergency relief efforts. Now the clean energy microutility is raising $96k and leveraging its supply chain, private sector networks, and local community ties to get critical assistance…
Read more →Solar DC Microgrid Brings Electricity, Light to 800-Year Old Himalayan Village
Private and public organizations including Infosys have joined to support deployment of Global Himalayan Expeditions' solar-powered DC microgrids that are bringing electricity and LED lighting to remote Himalayan villages as the Indian government's carries out its rural electrification program.
Read more →Off-Grid Solar Industry Investments Rise 15-Fold, Total $276 Million in 2015
Two market research reports from the World Bank Group's Global Lighting Program and GOGLA reveal growing use of off-grid solar energy and associated solar products and the beneficial impacts they're making worldwide, particularly in rural and remote communities.
Read more →Finnish Research Team Lays Out Blockchain Microgrid Platform Development Model
The ETLA research team identifies and defines a target state and use case -- an adaptive distributed energy resource management platform for an apartment building owned by a Swedish housing society -- and proceeds to elaborate how blockchain can be used in concert with other available and required technological components to design and build one.
Read more →Blockchain and the Rise of Peer-to-Peer Power Markets
Mirror images of one another, blockchain-based P2P transaction networks and distributed energy resource management platforms seem to go hand-in-glove. It may be years before the first large-scale commercial platforms are launched, however.
Read more →Hybrid Renewable Mini-Grids A Potential $200 Billion Market
Declining costs and improving performance is fueling a surge in the construction of hybrid renewable energy mini- and microgrids worldwide, particularly in rural and otherwise remote areas where conventional, centralized power grids have been unable to reach, according to a comprehensive, rigorous study from the International Renewable Energy Agency.
Read more →British Columbia Solar-EV Charging Microgrid Shines During Grid Outage
Designed to serve as a cutting edge ¨gas station of the future,¨ British Columbia Institute of Technology's Energy Oasis solar-EV charging platform kicked in and delivered the power needed to carry on with a public demonstration during a grid outage.
Read more →Contract To Design Six Interconnected Microgrids at Pearl Harbor Goes To Burns & McDonnell
HONOLULU, HAWAII—The High Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) announced today that its Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT) program just awarded a $1.5 million contract to design a series of interconnected microgrids at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH), the first…
Read more →Sharp Launches New Mid-Tier, C&I Solar-Energy Storage Financing Program
Sharp's Energy Systems & Services Group expects to finance more than 12 MWs worth of hybrid commercial and industrial (C&I) ¨solar plus storage¨ projects in the next 12 months.
Read more →India's Fast Growing Number of Cloud Data Centers May Spur Microgrid Investments
Leading cloud data center hosting companies, including AWS, IBM and Microsoft, have been opening up new facilities across the sub-continent, opening up prospects for hybrid and renewable microgrid deployments. Doing so would yield twin benefits: securing power supplies and contributing to achievement of India's renewable energy and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.
Read more →New Community Microgrid Projects Crop Up in Seattle and Santa Monica
Community microgrids are cropping up in a growing number of states as government, civic and business leaders look to shore up energy security, grid reliability and resilience, contain cost increases and reduce environmental pollution.
Read more →Power Outage in Atlanta Causes Global Delta Airlines Meltdown
"Our systems are down everywhere," Delta told tens of thousands of stranded passengers Monday after a power outage at their Atlanta headquarters wreaked havoc on their reservations and ticketing system worldwide. The power outage lasted less than six hours, mostly…
Read more →Utility Grant Boosting Minnesota Microgrid Research
A recent grant from Xcel Energy is helping a Minnesota University in investigating the Gopher States future microgrid potential. According to MidWest Energy News , a $2.1 million grant was given to St. Paul and Minneapolis- based the University of…
Read more →Watch This Fishing Village In Haiti Get Transformed by A Solar Microgrid
Sigora Solar recently completed a solar powered microgrid in Mole Saint Nicolas, Haiti - a remote fishing village seven hours by truck from Port Au Prince. Sigora is a for-profit company that bills themselves as the green utility. The microgrid…
Read more →These Companies Can Deploy A Mobile Microgrid in Days
An underappreciated aspect of decentralized renewable energy is the speed at which an entire mobile microgrid can be deployed and communities can be transformed by clean energy. It is a sharp contrast from large, centralized grid infrastructure that has failed…
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