Microgrid News
In a Snap, GE Becomes Global Utility T&D Powerhouse
GE Grid Solutions [wpsm_quote author="" float="right" width="40%"]Approximately 40% Of The Global Power Base Now Comes From GE[/wpsm_quote] Marking the completion of its acquisition of France's Alstom – the largest industrial acquisition in a history that stretches back to the world's…
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Chicago's 'Jake and Elwood' Utility-Scale Energy Storage Centers Near Completion
Invoking memories of, as well as memorializing Chicago blues, John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd's performances in the still-popular musical comedy ¨The Blues Brothers,¨ Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Americas announced that construction of the Chicago-area Jake Energy Storage and Elwood Energy…
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Mexico Announces First Electricity Market Auction Guidelines
Mexico's Secretary of Energy Pedro Joaquín Coldwell this morning announced the guidelines that will govern the country's first electricity market auction. The auction will open the door for independent power producers (IPP) to develop large-scale power projects that deliver electricity…
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AES Adding Battery Storage Capacity to Philippine Power Grids
The Philippines is poised for the installation of its first utility-scale battery-based energy storage system. AES Philippines on November 5 announced it will build a 10MW battery-based energy storage facility in Zambales, Malaya Business Insight reported. Built to enhance the…
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Internet of Things Fuels VC Smart Grid, Energy Storage Investment
Venture capital (VC) investment groups put $81 million of capital across 12 transactions to work in up-and-coming smart grid systems vendors in 3Q, substantially less than 2Q's $104 million and 18 transactions, Mercom Capital reports. Though down on a quarterly…
Read more →November 7th-8th, 2016 | New York City | HOMER Microgrid Conference and HOMER training at Columbia University
HOMER Energy will hold its 4th International HOMER Microgrid Conference and HOMER training at Columbia University in New York City on November 7 and 8, 2016 . Details of the event, including information on registration, speaking, sponsorship, and HOMER training…
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NY Prize Feasibility Studies Under Way in 10 Communities
The NY Prize program is heating up in New York, as a variety of factors are putting pressure on and raising the risks and costs of producing, distributing and using energy. Fostered by new clean energy policies, regulations and programs…
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Will Desalination Undermine California's Renewable Energy Targets Or Be A Grid Resource?
Large, inflexible desalination plants could jeopardize California's renewable energy targets and increase the cost of both water and energy. Better designed desalination plants can be a grid resource enabling renewable microgrids. Maintaining a balance on the electric grid used to…
Read more →October 25-26, 2016 | Infocast's Microgrid Summit | San Francisco Bay Area
Infocast ’s Microgrids Summit, now in its 9 th edition, returns this October 25-26 in the San Francisco Bay Area as t he Microgrids Convergence Conference Both new and established microgrid customers will come together with renewable energy developers, microgrid…
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Duke Energy Gets Bullish on ¨Green¨ Microgrids
The nation's power utilities are facing pressures of unprecedented breadth and depth – from reducing greenhouse gas emissions and pollution to keeping up with new, cleaner and more efficient power technologies and energy policy reforms. The EPA's October 23 release…
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Hawaiian Electric Launches $2.1MM Distributed Energy Storage Program
Integrating electricity produced by solar and wind energy systems on to power grids has quickly become a major cause for concern among U.S. utilities, grid operators and regulators, particularly monopoly utilities in states such as Hawaii, where Hawaiian Electric Co.…
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Distributed energy resources can already balance themselves on a local microgrid
At ESNA 2015, UCSD's Byron Washom described his 'hallucinogenic dreams,' where solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, and other distributed energy resources (DER) orchestrate a clean, balanced, and efficient electric grid. He might not be crazy after all. Accelerating into a…
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Community Microgrids are the bridge to a modern grid
The Clean Coalition shows how adopting community microgrids can provide a pathway to a clean, resilient, and less expensive energy system. The electric grid was not designed to utilize distributed energy resources (DERs), which can include solar panels, wind turbines,…
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The New Economics of Battery Storage
In ¨ The Economics of Battery Energy Storage ,¨ RMI lays out 13 distinct services advanced battery storage systems can deliver today. More to the point, the report authors conclude that these systems are economic and cost-effective now. [wpsm_button color="orange"…
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A Glimpse Into Future Microgrid Communities at Solar Decathlon
The Solar Decathlon , organized by the US Department of Energy is showcasing a new generation of homes designed to minimize energy consumption and maximize renewable as well as passive energy potential. The designs could play a significant role in…
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The 10 Microgrid Value Streams
Keeping the lights on during a power outage is usually the selling point of a microgrid. But a new report by Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) breaks down the 13 value streams that battery storage can provide, and at least ten…
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03/16 – 03/18, 2016 || Microgrid Markets Summit East || Arlington, VA
MICROGRIDS' ROLE IN ENERGY SECURITY, RENEWABLE INTEGRATION & THE GRID OF THE FUTURE [wpsm_button color="orange" size="big" link="http://microgridmedia.com/military-microgrids" icon="none" class="" target="_blank"]Register Now[/wpsm_button] The United States Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DOE), Northeast States, and utilities are the primary drivers…
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How The Developing World Is Reinventing The Grid
[wpsm_column size="one-third"] [/wpsm_column] A Fresh Start The way we interact with energy is fundamentally changing. The core business model of utilities is clashing with global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, adopt new technologies, and become energy independent. While massive…
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Working With Nature to Reach 100% Renewable Energy with Elemental Water Makers
[wpsm_dropcap]EDITOR'S NOTE [/wpsm_dropcap] Let's admit it, fossil fuels have made us lazy. What we used to accomplish with biomimicry and working with nature we now just burn more fossil fuels. Today we depend on coal and gas for everything from…
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Grid Will Not Survive Inevitable Geomagnetic Storm or EMP Attack
An EMP, or electromagnetic pulse, bringing down the entire electric grid sounds like science fiction, and you may have heard about it from your prepper neighbor wearing a tin foil hat. And if you've never heard of an EMP, you're…
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