Renewable Energy News
Netherlands Sustainable Energy Producer is Building The Industry's First Software-Defined Power Plant
Scaling up from community and campus microgrids, leading edge power producers and utilities are helping advance the clean energy transition by making use of pioneering distributed power and energy resource management systems. To wit: Redwood, California-based AutoGrid on November 11…
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POSTPONED: 04/10-12 || Africa Energy Investment Summit || Washington, D.C., USA
The Latest: Africa Energy Investment Summit Lines Up High Calibre Speakers and Industry Experts. Infrastructure has played a significant role in Africa’s recent economic turnaround, and will need to play an even greater one…
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In a Snap, GE Becomes Global Utility T&D Powerhouse
GE Grid Solutions Approximately 40% Of The Global Power Base Now Comes From GE Marking the completion of its acquisition of France's Alstom – the largest industrial acquisition in a history that stretches back to the world's…
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More from GE Read More: Microgrid Controller Competition by NREL
Read more →The UCSD Microgrid - Showing the Future of Electricity
A Rocky Mountain Institute video on the UC San Diego microgrid, which integrates and controls electricity supply and demand across the campus.
Read more →Missouri Microgrid Research Project at Missouri S&T
A video on Missouri S&T's campus microgrid research project.
Read more →How Microgrids Work
A short explainer video from Texas Engineering (UT Austin Cockrell School) on how microgrids work.
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Chicago's 'Jake and Elwood' Utility-Scale Energy Storage Centers Near Completion
Invoking memories of, as well as memorializing Chicago blues, John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd's performances in the still-popular musical comedy “The Blues Brothers,” Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Americas announced that construction of the Chicago-area Jake Energy Storage and Elwood Energy…
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Mexico Announces First Electricity Market Auction Guidelines
Mexico's Secretary of Energy Pedro Joaquín Coldwell this morning announced the guidelines that will govern the country's first electricity market auction. The auction will open the door for independent power producers (IPP) to develop large-scale power projects that deliver electricity…
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AES Adding Battery Storage Capacity to Philippine Power Grids
The Philippines is poised for the installation of its first utility-scale battery-based energy storage system. AES Philippines on November 5 announced it will build a 10MW battery-based energy storage facility in Zambales, Malaya Business Insight reported. Built to enhance the…
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Internet of Things Fuels VC Smart Grid, Energy Storage Investment
Venture capital (VC) investment groups put $81 million of capital across 12 transactions to work in up-and-coming smart grid systems vendors in 3Q, substantially less than 2Q's $104 million and 18 transactions, Mercom Capital reports. Though down on a quarterly…
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NY Prize Feasibility Studies Under Way in 10 Communities
The NY Prize program is heating up in New York, as a variety of factors are putting pressure on and raising the risks and costs of producing, distributing and using energy. Fostered by new clean energy policies, regulations and programs…
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Will Desalination Undermine California's Renewable Energy Targets Or Be A Grid Resource?
Large, inflexible desalination plants could jeopardize California's renewable energy targets and increase the cost of both water and energy. Better designed desalination plants can be a grid resource enabling renewable microgrids. Maintaining a balance on the electric grid used to…
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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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Distributed energy resources can already balance themselves on a local microgrid
At ESNA 2015, UCSD's Byron Washom described his 'hallucinogenic dreams,' where solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, and other distributed energy resources (DER) orchestrate a clean, balanced, and efficient electric grid. He might not be crazy after all. Accelerating into a…
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There are 83 microgrid projects being evaluated in New York
New York is the most active and innovative market for microgrid projects, driven largely by the need for resiliency after Superstorm Sandy. New York has the oldest electric grid in the United States, says James Gallagher of the New…
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