Microgrid Reports
New Secretary of Defense James Mattis Supports Solar Military Microgrids To 'Remove Tether of Fuel'
As Coalition Forces stormed Baghdad in 2003, the commanders knew they had a significant Achilles heel. They didn't know how long they had to defeat Saddam's regime before the difficulty of delivering fuel throughout the battlefield would catch up with…
Read more →Global Microgrid Markets To Reach $35 billion By 2022: New Report
Research & Markets suggest global microgrid markets will have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12% between 2016-2022. The Research and Markets timeline for microgrid growth is slightly slower than Global Microgrid Market report from Transparency Market Research, which…
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 →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 →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 →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 →Military, Utilities Key to Microgrid Growth, Multi-Stakeholder Ownership Models
U.S. installed microgrid capacity will more than double out to 2020 as growing participation on the part of utilities and the military in microgrids owned by multiple stakeholders fuel growth, according to GTM Research.
Read more →Global Microgrid market to Advance: Technavio
Upgrading outdated grid infrastructure, concerns over an increase in extreme weather events, and government support will help drive the microgrid market, according to a recent report. Technavio said worldwide microgrid markets will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)…
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 →Forecasting Optimizes Solar-diesel Hybrid Microgrids
An improved forecasting of weather changes can reduce the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) for solar-diesel hybrid microgrids by optimizing the investment costs for storage and improving the operations of the diesel gensets and storage systems Balancing the intermittencies in…
Read more →New Report Shows How Legacy Market Design Stifles Community Microgrid Potential
The Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR) has released a report, Mighty Microgrids , with recommendations for unlocking the benefits community microgrids . Though the report labels microgrids as unstoppable, it lists several key barriers keeping ratepayers from seeing the…
Read more →Human, Social, And Cultural Practices For Rural Electrification Using Microgrids
Human, Social, And Cultural Practices For Rural Electrification Using Microgrids Microgrid System Laboratory December 2014 Principal author and researcher: Christian E. Casillas, Ph.D. Point of contact: David Breecker, Managing Director Full Paper (PDF) Here The process of rural electrification has…
Read more →Microgrids in Africa: Perspectives From WorldWatch Institute and Navigant Research
This article was written by D.A. Barber for AFKInsider . It is being reposted with permission. With Africa’s push for rural electrification, microgrids — especially those that use renewable energy…
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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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20x Growth Forecast in Remote Microgrid and Nanogrid Market
Microgrids are on the verge of an expansion that extends their use to a broader range of uses and end users worldwide. At this early stage of market evolution microgrid deployments are most numerous and growing fastest at remote sites…
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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…
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Community Microgrid Models Emerge
Affordable energy storage and an uptick in personal wealth are creating new business opportunities for community microgrid developers, according to a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The global increase in personal wealth may come as a surprise to…
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