Campus Microgrid
GE Berlin Hybrid Power Plant Combines CHP, Solar and Smart Battery Storage
Along with solar PV and intelligent energy storage technology, combined heat and power (CHP) takes center stage in a Hyrbrid Power Plant GE has built to power its facility, households and local businesses in Berlin. Besides using PV and advanced battery technology to generate, store and dispatch electricity as demand requires the Hybrid Power Plant uses GE Jenbacher CHP technology to capture heat produced in various processes to heat water.
Read more →New Orleans Microgrids to Enhance Disaster Resiliency, Water Resources
Winner of a $141 million HUD National Disaster Resilience Competition grant, New Orleans aims to build two microgrids to enhance water resource management and quality of life, as well as improve disaster relief and emergency infrastructure and services.
Read more →Johnson Controls-Tyco Merger to Create One of World's Largest Battery Storage Companies
The Johnson Controls -Tyco merger will create one of the world's largest battery storage companies and boost JCI's presence in the nascent but rapidly evolving microgrid and energy efficiency industry and markets.
Read more →New DOE-SEIA SHINES Program to Make Solar Plus Storage Affordable
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) launched a joint initiative aimed at boosting development and deployment of integrated solar energy-power storage systems. Dubbed SHINES ( Sustainable and Holistic…
Read more →DOE Announces Grid Modernization R&D Projects, Partners, and Funding
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced it will fund up to $220 million of R&D projects to modernize America's aging power grid infrastructure over the next three years. Accompanying this, DOE released its “Grid Modernization Multi-Year Program Plan” (MYPP), a…
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Global Microgrid Market to Grow 21%, Exceed $35B by 2020
Analysts at Transparency Market Research forecast the global microgrid market will expand at a 20.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2014 and 2020. Pegging the value of the market at $9.8 billion in 2013, the market research provider…
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Microgrid System Laboratory Partners To Include NREL, DOE, Clean Coalition, Duke Energy and others
Most existing microgrids are inefficient, poorly optimized, and overwhelmingly diesel-powered. The newly formed Microgrid System Laboratory in Santa Fe, New Mexico is hoping to change that. It will be a "fully-integrated innovation center for decentralized energy systems," focusing on microgrid…
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Navigant Works with 12 Microgrid Project Sponsors to Define the Market, Develop Strategies
Rapidly declining costs and performance improvements, along with supportive energy and power market policy and regulatory changes, continues to fuel strong growth in distributed renewable energy investment and installations and, more recently, stationary battery storage systems. Bringing together and integrating…
Read more →Microgrid Benefits
Microgrid Benefits From ARUP's 5 Minute Guide to Microgrids Conversion loss savings Lower carbon cost Reduced peak power costs Reduced capacity charges Increased CHP balance Network capex avoidance Lower network redundancy Energy price arbitrage Optimised own supply…
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Over 1400/13GW of Microgrid Deployments Tracked in Over 100 Countries
The global number of microgrid deployments is on the rise as governments, communities, corporations, utilities and others seek to enhance energy efficiency, security and grid resiliency, as well as add emissions-free renewable energy and energy storage capacity. There were 1,437…
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Netherlands Sustainable Energy Producer is Building The Industry's First Software-Defined Power Plant
Scaling up from community and campus microgrids, leading edge power producers and utilities are helping advance the clean energy transition by making use of pioneering distributed power and energy resource management systems. To wit: Redwood, California-based AutoGrid on November 11…
Read more →October 25-26, 2016 | Infocast's Microgrid Summit | San Francisco Bay Area
Infocast’s Microgrids Summit, now in its 9th 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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