Distributed Energy Resources
D.light Raises Another $10.5MM as Kenya Launches $150MM Mobile Pay-Go Solar Plan
A mix of equity and grant funding, the capital infusion brings the total amount d.light has raised over the past four months to more than $40 million, highlighting growing investor confidence in mobile pay-go solar as an effective means of sustainable socioeconomic development..
Read more →South Carolina Marine Corps Microgrid To Be Built By Ameresco
Ameresco, Inc. , a leading energy efficiency and energy infrastructure company, announced it has been awarded the contract to build a 10 MW campus microgrid of new onsite generation and a battery energy storage system at Marine Corps Recruit Depot…
Read more →Self-Driving Batteries, Virtual Microgrids, and Other Uber-like Future Energy Models
This new slideshare from Professor Damien Ernst describes microgrids, V2G (Vehicle To Grid), autonomous vehicle energy delivery, and other futuristic models for the electrical industry. With seemingly daily announcement from car and technology companies, these models are much closer than…
Read more →Jacobs Engineering Group Selected for NJ Transit Microgrid Design and General Engineering
NJ Transit is constructing the first of its kind microgrid that takes advantage of transit infrastructure to harden critical infrastructure. The Project is a result of a partnership between NJ TRANSIT, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, the U.S.…
Read more →Pay-As-You-Go Solar and Microgrids Considered New Class of Infrastructure Investment
Small enough to be deemed insignificant by conventional power market and investment standards, off-grid solar-storage mini- and microgrids now account for a significant and still growing share of electrification taking place in a diverse range of populous countries around the world – from Peru, Pakistan and Yemen to island nations, including the Dominican Republic, Fiji, Samoa and Indonesia.
Read more →Biggest Drivers Of US Electric Grid Transformation According to DOE
According to the 2nd Quadrennial Energy Review , here the key trends shaping the electricity sector today. It also reads as a list of opportunities for microgrids. Increasing Importance of “Internet of Things” (IoT) and Digitization. IoT is “sensors and…
Read more →An Off-Grid Vision for 2025 With Solar, Storage, Efficiency, and Autonomous EVs
The year is 2025 and like most of your neighbors, your house is not connected to the electric grid. During the summer, it is almost completely powered by the solar panels on your roof, which look like traditional roofing shingles…
Read more →Liberating Microgrids: How Customers and Solutions Providers Can Grow DER Markets
The Failure Rate for Proposed Microgrid Projects is Too High. Why is This? By Sunil Cherian and Peter Asmus Too often, these networks of distributed energy resources (DER) are viewed as sophisticated infrastructure projects, requiring expensive upfront analysis followed by…
Read more →Bangladesh Emerges as a Hotbed for Solar Microgrids, P2P Energy Trading
Bangladeshi clean enegy entrepreneurs are playing a key role in the installation of home solar PV-energy storage and community microgrids in Bangladesh. Access to reliable, safe and affordable emissions-free electricity is improving lives and livelihoods throughout the country.
Read more →Zimbabwe Off-Grid Solar Start-up Lands Kiva Direct to Social Enterprise Loan
Providing mobile "pay as you go" home solar loans, Zonful Energy tapped into Kiva's new Direct to Social Enterprise Fund to secure a $50,000 loan that will enable it to deploy the PAYG mobile payments soloution to remote and rural areas.
Read more →Tesla-SolarCity Swoops In On Nascent Island Microgrid Market
Successive news announcements makes it clear that Tesla-SolarCity has had its eyes on island solar-storage microgrids for quite some time.
Read more →Borrego Springs Microgrid: From Proof of Concept to Project Development Showcase
Created as a result of grid outage, Borrego Springs' "solar plust storage" microgrid has evolved from a "proof of concept" to the town's primary source of electricity, as well as testing ground for utility customer demand response and innovative clean energy solutions.
Read more →World's First Open Microgrid Lets Commercial Zones Co-Invest and Optimize Energy Resources
Two new pilot projects, dubbed 'E-Cloud' seek to develop and optimize open microgrids in Belgium's industrial zones. E-cloud is funded by the local Wallonia government. The "eco-zoning" will allow different companies in the same commercial park to invest together into…
Read more →UK Blockchain Startup Aims to Revamp Energy Sector from the Top-Down
Electron is working with U.K. gas and electricity market stakeholders in a bid to convince them of the advantages and benefits to be gained from migrating from a hodgepodge of systems currently used to track ownership and operation of grid assets, customer billing, accounts and the like to an open, yet all but incorruptible distributed online ledger and transaction system, such as its Ethereum Blockchain-based platform.
Read more →Off-Grid Solar Start-ups Pierce the ¨Heart of Darkness¨
Expanding in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, an innovative off-grid solar energy start-up conceived at Colorado State University aims to leverage mobile micropayments to deliver low and zero-emissions electricity to residents of remote communities in Peru's Amazon.
Read more →Solar Startup Harnesses the Power of the Sun and the Mighty Zambesi
Construction of the first three of a planned 12 hybrid solar-hydroelectric microgrids highlights the creative, effective ways multilateral Power Africa off-grid energy program partners are teaming up with African entrepreneurs to bring affordable, reliable, emissions-free electricity access to rural communities for the first time.
Read more →Schneider Launches New EcoStruxure Energy IoT Architecture and Platform
Schneider is building bridges across the energy and IoT sectors with the latest iteration of its EcoStruxure architecture and platform, which offers an ¨industrial strength¨ energy IoT solution that is open, scalable and interoperable, according to the company.
Read more →USAID, RBL Bank Partner to Expand Off-Grid, Rooftop Solar in India
The $75 million USAID loan guarantee will significantly enhance RBL's ability to extend loans to Indian SMBs installing off-grid and rooftop solar energy systems in poorly served communities, thereby contributing to achieving India's national greenhouse gas reduction, renewable energy and sustainable development goals.
Read more →Energy Industry First: Siemens, LO3 Energy to Link Blockchain Trading, Microgrid Management Technology
Brooklyn, New York's LO3 Energy is at the leading edge of a fundamental restructuring and retooling of energy production and distribution. A partnership with Siemens should give the startup a big ¨leg up¨ as it seeks to expand use of its Ethereum Blockchain-based, P2P microgrid distributed energy trading software.
Read more →ABB, Indian Institute of Technology Microgrid Partnership To Boost Climate-Smart Rural Electrification Drive
ABB and IIT Madras aim to develop a ¨microgrid of microgrids¨ platform that if successful should make a substantial contribution to realization of India's ambitious renewable energy and rural electrification goals.
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