Distributed Energy Resources
Naval Multi-Physics Lab Adds Ice Energy Storage to its Renewable Microgrid
The addition of Calmac's IceBank energy storage technology is the latest in the US Naval Postgraduate School Multi-Physics Lab's efforts to design, test and build an integrated renewable energy-storage microgrid on its Monterey, California campus.
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 →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 →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 →Vulcan Impact Investing Makes its Mark with Rural Kenya Solar Mini-grids
Vulcan's impact investing team lay out the challenges they have faced, and the solutions they've come up with, in the two years it has owned and operated 10 off-grid, solar-powered mini-grids serving communities in rural Kenya.
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 →Marin County Energy Launches My Energy Insight Demand Response Pilot
MCE is leveraging AutoGrid's Demand Response Optimization and Management Systems (DROMS) to conduct the year-long pilot system in a bid to lower customer energy costs and GHG emissions and help enhance utility grid performance.
Read more →Off-Grid Renewable Energy Bringing Universal Electricity Access to Africa
Widely available and cheaper than ever, PV solar is spreading rapidly across sub-Saharan Africa as a first generation of local clean energy entrepreneurs taps into support from U.S. and multilateral public-private partnerships,
Read more →Marine Expeditionary Force Tests Microgrids on Land, In the Air
The U.S. I Marine Expeditionary Force tested microgrids in recent large-scale field exercises. Early results indicate they proved more efficient and reliable, reduced man-hours and costs and enhanced operational effectiveness as compared to existing alternatives.
Read more →Share&Charge Blockchain EV Charging Sharing Network Moves into Beta
Germany's Block.it's Share&Charge mobile app resides atop Ethereum secure blockchain distributed database technology to offer EV charging station owners a means of generating income from their investments.
Read more →At the Grid Edge: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton's Fractal Microgrid
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton's Fractal Microgrid serves as an illustration of how the U.S. Navy and armed forces are taking advantage of leading-edge clean energy technology to improve performance, reduce costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
Read more →Tabuchi America Joins Electric & Gas Industries Association to Launch ¨Solar Plus Storage¨ Loan Program
The US subsidiary of one of the world's largest solar inverter manufacturers, Tabuchi has partnered with energy efficiency and renewable energy advocacy EGIA to launch the $300 million GEOSmart SolPower residential solar-plus-storage financing program, the largest of its kind to date.
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 →Electrical Manufacturers Lay Out Microgrid Strategic Vision
Microgrids will evolve from playing passive to active roles and serve as core elements of 21st century U.S. grid modernization efforts, according to a research report from the National Electrical Manufacturing Association.
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 →PwC Identifies 3 Key Strategic Elements for Microgrid Market Success
Microgrid market participants will be well served if they incorporate a ¨total solution¨ approach, along with two other key elements, in their strategic business plans, according to PwC.
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 →How Can Microgrids and Utilities Become Best Buds?
The term microgrid used to give utility executives sleepless nights and indigestion. These small, self-reliant systems would pop up, seemingly like mushrooms, within a utility’s service territory, threatening both the utility’s resource plan and its obligation to serve reliable power.…
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