Distributed Energy Resources
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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Spain’s TTA Builds Five 24/7 Solar-Wind Minigrids on Ghana’s Lake Volta Islands
The initial five remote island renewable minigrids are enhancing lives and livelihoods as Ghana continues its drive to achieve universal electricity access by 2020.
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Germany’s Innogy Leaps into California’s EV Charging Market
The launch of Innovy e-mobility US marks a milestone in the German "green energy" group's efforts to capitalize and expand on its electric vehicle and e-mobility tech and services in Europe.
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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 →Australia’s “Sunshine State” Issues Solar Rooftop Public Housing Tenders
The Queensland Dept. of Housing and Public Works is soliciting "Expressions of Interest" from qualified solar energy design, engineering and installation companies to install solar PV systems on public housing in Cairns and Rockingham, part and parcel of a broader project that aims to see 3-6 MWs of solar power capacity installed on 2,000-4,000 houses.
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 →Microgrid 2.0 and Aging U.S. Grid Infrastructure
“Microgrid 2.0 deployments are going to eclipse those done in the old way simply because of the economic benefits, which are in addition to improved resiliency and sustainability," according to Schneider Electric North America's Mark Feasel.
Read more →San Francisco, Los Angeles Outages Highlight Growing Risks, Rising Costs of Aging Power Infrastructure
The threats and costs associated with aging power grid infrastructure are rising, challenges that can be met by emerging "Microgrid 2.0" technology and systems, according to Schneider Electric's Mark Feasel.
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 →TenneT, IBM Launch Pilot Distributed Energy-Blockchain Projects in Germany and the Netherlands
The pioneering, utility-scale distributed energy-grid integraion projects will incorporate utility customers electric vehicle (EV) and household battery storage capacity and make use of a permissioned blockchain transaction/database system to be built by IBM using the Hyperledger Fabric platform.
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 →IOTA Tangle Takes the Blocks Out of Peer-to-Peer, Distributed Ledger Networks
IOTA Tangle resolves key questions regarding blockchain-based transaction and distributed ledger systems, holding out the prospect of throwing the doors of e-mobility wide open.
Read more →Real Estate Investment, Affordable Housing Groups Latch On to Distributed “Green” Energy Locomotive
Teaming up with Advanced Microgrid Solutions, Kilroy Realty is outfitting five of its Los Angeles commercial buildings with a suite of Hybrid Electric Buildings Technolgoies that will minimize energy consumption and costs and shore up the utlity grid. In Scotland, a partnership between Berwickshire Housing Association and Community Energy Scotland has seen the launch of a landmark community wind power-affordable housing plan through to fruition.
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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