Renewable Energy News
Go Electric to Deploy $1.7 Million Advanced Battery Storage Microgrid at Tooele Army Depot in Utah
Indiana's Go Electric has come to specilize in developing and deploying secure, reliable and cost-effective low-emissions distributed energy resource and energy efficiency systems for the US Armed Forces, whose energy security, resilience and "green" energy drive continues on course.
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Spain’s TTA Builds Five 24/7 Solar-Wind Minigrids on Ghana’s Lake Volta Islands
The initial five remote island renewable minigrids are enhancing lives and livelihoods as Ghana continues its drive to achieve universal electricity access by 2020.
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New Jersey PUB Approves 13 Town Center Microgrid Feasibility Studies
The Veolia Trenton Thermal Energy District Network would serves as the core and a technology hub for one of the 13 New Jersey town center microgrid proposals under consideration.
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Aggreko Acquires Advanced Battery Storage-Smart Microgrid Systems Pioneer Younicos for $52 Million
Aggreko and Younicos' chief executives waxed optimistic regarding the all-cash, GBP40 million acquisition and merger despite expectations Younicos will continue to lose money over the near term.
Read more →Enel Green Power Commissions World’s First, and Highest, 24x7 Solar-Hydrogen-Lithium Energy Storage Microgrid
The 24x7 solar-plus-storage microgrid now up and running at the Cerro Pabellon geothermal power plant in Chile's high and dry (very, very dry) Antofagasta region marks a distributed clean energy milestone for Enel Green Power, Chile's energy transition and more.
Read more →Australia’s “Sunshine State” Issues Solar Rooftop Public Housing Tenders
The Queensland Dept. of Housing and Public Works is soliciting "Expressions of Interest" from qualified solar energy design, engineering and installation companies to install solar PV systems on public housing in Cairns and Rockingham, part and parcel of a broader project that aims to see 3-6 MWs of solar power capacity installed on 2,000-4,000 houses.
Read more →Microgrid 2.0 and Aging U.S. Grid Infrastructure
“Microgrid 2.0 deployments are going to eclipse those done in the old way simply because of the economic benefits, which are in addition to improved resiliency and sustainability," according to Schneider Electric North America's Mark Feasel.
Read more →San Francisco, Los Angeles Outages Highlight Growing Risks, Rising Costs of Aging Power Infrastructure
The threats and costs associated with aging power grid infrastructure are rising, challenges that can be met by emerging "Microgrid 2.0" technology and systems, according to Schneider Electric's Mark Feasel.
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 →University, Industry, Community Partner to Build Solar Microgrid on Chemehuevi Tribal Reservation
Project team members from the University of California, Riverside (UCR), SunPower and equipment vendors are working with tribal community members to install a 90-kW solar PV array and a 25-kW/125-kWh Primus Power flow battery storage system that will meet the needs of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe’s Community Center and housing agency offices, as well as provide critical power in times of grid outages and emergencies
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 →Chilean Solar-Storage Microgrid Provider Rolls Out Cloud Billing, Customer Care Service
The first to offer residential and mid-scale "behind the meter" solar-storage microgrids and information services in Chile, Amigo Solar is one of a small but growing roster of independent power producers fueling emergence of a new class of sustainable energy "prosumers."
Read more →Facebook, Microsoft Join in Launch of Sustainable Microgrid Investment Accelerator
Facebook and Microsoft are joining the growing ranks of leading high-tech industry players aiming to expand sustainable energy access and renewable energy microgrid deployment across the developing world. Partnering with clean energy venture capital specialists at Allotrope Partners, the high-tech industry leaders aim to raise $50 million from 2018-2020 to expand sustainable energy access in East Africa, India and Indonesia.
Read more →First Non-Recourse Project Financing for Utility “Behind the Meter” Battery Energy Storage
CIT has completed the first non-recourse project financing package for Macquarie Capital, which is working with Advanced Microgrid Solutions, to bring 50-MW of "behind the meter" battery storage capacity online to shore up Southern California Edison grid services in pockets of the West Los Angeles Basin.
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 →Solar Crowdfunding Non-Profit Wins DOE-SunShot "Solar in Your Community" Seed Funding
Innovative non-profit, community solar-focused RE-volv will use an initial $100,000 seed grant to further develop its plans to install solar PV systems for 10 local non-profits and take another step towards winning a $100,000 "Solar in Your Community" grand prize.
Read more →Episcopalian, Methodist Churches Plow $60MM into Developing World Off-Grid Solar
The Church Pension Fund and Wespath Benefits and Investments have invested $60 million ($30 million each) in Developing World Markets’ (DWM) landmark $60.8 million ORCA (Off-grid Renewables-Climate Action) note.
Read more →Commissioning of Multi-Platform Solar-Storage Microgrid Under Way on Sardinia
Designed and built by Electro Power System and partner FZSoNick for Sardinia's water management agency, the hybidized microgrid integrates concentrating solar thermal and concentrating solar PV with thermal and intelligent battery-based energy storage.
Read more →MTN, Lumos Global Expect to Empower 1 Million Nigerians with Launch of Mobile Electricity Service
The advent of off-grid, mobile pay-go household solar energy systems is producing amazing results in a growing range of Sub-Saharan nations. The MTN-Lumos partnership serves as a prime example.
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