Remote Microgrids
Hybrid Solar Microgrids Up and Running in Colombia's Forbidding Darièn
Installed by Cali's Tecmac Ingeniera, the five community solar-diesel microgrids have created jobs for locals and reduced pollution and energy costs, thereby improving human and environmental health, safety and integrity
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 →Postcard From the Future? Ta'u Island Ditches Diesel With Tesla-SolarCity Microgrid
In 'Before The Flood,' Elon Musk tells Leonardo DiCaprio that just 100 Gigafactories would be enough to move the entire world to sustainable energy. While critics scoffed, Tesla and SolarCity were busy building the prototype. Just days after the Tesla-SolarCity…
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.
Read more →A Solar-Storage Microgrid for Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Small in size at 10-kW of solar power and 95-kWh of zinc-iron battery energy storage, the proposed project nonetheless highlights the leading role the National Park Service and other branches of the Federal government can and are playing in reducing greenhouse gas emissions reductions and ramping up use of local renewable energy resources.
Read more →Solar Microgrid Helps Save Lives, Brighten Prospects in Rural Myanmar
A community solar-energy storage is delivering emissions-free electricity throughout a village in Myanmar's central Dry Zone, enabling health clinic staff to store anti-venom and treat snakebite victims on-site for the first time.
Read more →Twenty Megawatt Solar-Storage Microgrid Installed at the ¨Roof of the World¨
Up and running in Shuanghu on the Tibetan plateau, Sungrow's PV solar-energy storage microgrid provides affordable, reliable emissions-free electricity to more than 14,000 residents.
Read more →Haiti Microgrid Developer Wakes Up To Daunting New Role In Wake Of Hurricane Matthew
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, Sigora was on hand to support emergency relief efforts. Now the clean energy microutility is raising $96k and leveraging its supply chain, private sector networks, and local community ties to get critical assistance…
Read more →Solar DC Microgrid Brings Electricity, Light to 800-Year Old Himalayan Village
Private and public organizations including Infosys have joined to support deployment of Global Himalayan Expeditions' solar-powered DC microgrids that are bringing electricity and LED lighting to remote Himalayan villages as the Indian government's carries out its rural electrification program.
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 →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 →These Companies Can Deploy A Mobile Microgrid in Days
An underappreciated aspect of decentralized renewable energy is the speed at which an entire mobile microgrid can be deployed and communities can be transformed by clean energy. It is a sharp contrast from large, centralized grid infrastructure that has failed…
Read more →The Alaska Center for Microgrid Technologies Commercialization Announces Competition
The Alaska Center for Microgrid Technologies Commercialization (ACMTC) competition is now open. The competition is a collaborative effort involving ACEP, the Business Enterprise Institute, the Alaska Small Business Development Center, and the Center for Economic Development. Its purpose is to…
Read more →El Hierro – The leading example for renewable integration on islands?
El Hierro is a frequently cited example for renewable integration on islands, but microgrid expert Martin Baart " couldn't disagree more ," here's why: There is no business case Duration of project implementation There is no use of leading technologies…
Read more →The ABC Approach to Microgrid Development in Frontier Markets
Addressing this financial issue is an emerging model for rural microgrid installation, the phased “ABC” deployment approach. This approach is based on first addressing an (A) anchor client (typically the largest user in a community), next expanding the system to…
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 →These Electric Motorcycles Come Inside Their Own Nanogrid
Current Motor's new Mini-fleet-in-a-Box consists of four of their Nb electric cargo motorcycles inside a solar charging station that resembles a shipping container. The container opens 2.4 kW of solar panels to the sky. Four Nb Electric Cargo Motorcycles can…
Read more →Mobile Phone Adoption In Africa Can Provide Tools, Demand, and Lessons for Off-Grid Electrification
Hundreds of millions of phones ( a nd smartphones ) have been activated in Africa . But the aspiration of portable and renewable off-Grid solutions for all households still appears far-fetched . In countries like Nigeria, many urban household s…
Read more →Solar Kiosk Turns a Sleepy Kenyan Village Into An Urban Center
After decades of failed initiatives to extend electricity access, over 600 million people in Africa still do not have access to electricity . With current trends, it will take until 2080 for everyone in Africa to have access to electricity.…
Read more →The Investment Case for Mini-Grids and Off-Grids in Africa
Since the mid-1990s, external finance to Africa’s power sector has averaged only around US$600m per year of public assistance, plus a similar volume of private finance, according to the World Bank. Africa’s critical need for development requires rapid and effective…
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