Energy Management System
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.
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 →Billion-Dollar Benefits Foreseen via Tandem Energy Blockchain-Internet of Things Tech
Blockchain applications can streamline the entire process of bringing natural gas from well-fields to consumers, eliminating security vulnerabilities and entire facets of the process completely, according to BTL Group.
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 →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 →Schneider Electric Unveils Hybrid Microgrid at its Boston One Campus
Incoporating natural gas, solar PV, energy storage and a new suite of advanced microgrid controls and cloud analytics, the hybrid microgrid at Schneider Electric's Boston One Campus will serve as an innovation hub and demonstration center, as well as enhance energy efficiency, security, reliability and resilience.
Read more →EnerDel Sees Bright Prospects for Utility, as well as Military Hybrid Microgrids, Mobile Power Conversion
With a USAF-Univ. Dayton Research Institute project wrapping up, EnerDel sees prospects for its mobile and stationary hybrid microgrid technology improving in both the commercial and military sectors.
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 →ENEL Acquires Energy Storage Software and Microgrid Project Developer Demand Energy
Enel Green Power has acquired a 100 percent stake in Demand Energy Networks , Inc. (“Demand Energy”), a Washington-based provider of intelligent software and energy storage systems. Demand Energy has taken a central role in microgrid projects in New York…
Read more →'Microgrid as a Service' Projected Annual Growth Over 15% In New Report
According to a new report from Markets and Markets, the Microgrid as a Service (MaaS) is likely to grow at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 15.86% between 2015 and 2022, bringing the market from a 2015 base of…
Read more →War of Currents Unsettled as DC Microgrid, EV, DER, and Efficient Loads Favor DC
New DC Microgrid Opportunities Are Opening Up, Causing Many To Rethink The Entire Electric Grid. Universities, companies, and governments have been lining up for years to demonstrate the potential of DC microgrids, and the next generation of DC microgrid architectures…
Read more →NY Prize Pushing Community Microgrids Beyond Feasibility Studies
NYSERDA is now accepting applications for detailed designing, engineering, and business plans for microgrids in the state of New York. The RFP is the second stage of the NY Prize , which made $40 million in state funds available to…
Read more →Brooklyn Startup Broadens Solar Power Access with P2P Energy Exchange
Back in the 1990s the advent of peer-to-peer (P2P) computing sites such as Napster turned reproduction and distribution of music, then TV programs and films, upside down and inside out. A small Brooklyn startup is now looking to do the…
Read more →Sungevity To Employ Cyber-Secure Energy Monitoring and Management Software from CleanSpark
Commercial solar customers of Sungevity will now utilize cyber-secure energy monitoring and management software from microgrid company CleanSpark . Better known as a residential solar provider, Sungevity sees an opportunity in the 'small-scale business sector,' which includes retail stores, medical…
Read more →Veridian Microgrid To Combine Tesla Powerwall, EV Charging, and Solar Using Opus One Software
Veridian Connections announced this week they are rolling out a “ virtual power plant ,” with a new microgrid system. The southern Ontario utility says the microgrid project will provide significant benefits to their customers. "This project serves as the…
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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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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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