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Multiple Billion-Dollar Rewards If Energy Blockchains Can Live Up to the Hype
Reducing the vulnerability of the Oil & Gas industry value chain to cyber-threats, which are poised to multiply, is just one of several prospective streams of cost savings that reach billion-dollar multiples, energy blockchain-focused BTL Group asserts in a white paper.
Read more →New Solar Cells, Supercapacitors, Blockchain Apps Expected to Drive Renewable Power Costs Down Further
Renewable power generation is now cost competitive with fossil fuels, and industry participants foresee further gains ahead in light of ongoing technological innovation, efforts to craft industry standards and revise regulatory structures.
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 →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 →'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 →Naval Multi-Physics Lab Adds Ice Energy Storage to its Renewable Microgrid
The addition of Calmac's IceBank energy storage technology is the latest in the US Naval Postgraduate School Multi-Physics Lab's efforts to design, test and build an integrated renewable energy-storage microgrid on its Monterey, California campus.
Read more →Finnish Research Team Lays Out Blockchain Microgrid Platform Development Model
The ETLA research team identifies and defines a target state and use case -- an adaptive distributed energy resource management platform for an apartment building owned by a Swedish housing society -- and proceeds to elaborate how blockchain can be used in concert with other available and required technological components to design and build one.
Read more →Blockchain and the Rise of Peer-to-Peer Power Markets
Mirror images of one another, blockchain-based P2P transaction networks and distributed energy resource management platforms seem to go hand-in-glove. It may be years before the first large-scale commercial platforms are launched, however.
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 →Utility Grant Boosting Minnesota Microgrid Research
A recent grant from Xcel Energy is helping a Minnesota University in investigating the Gopher States future microgrid potential. According to MidWest Energy News , a $2.1 million grant was given to St. Paul and Minneapolis- based the University 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 →Decentralized Renewable Hybrid Mini-Grids for Sustainable Electrification of the Off-Grid Coastal Areas of Bangladesh
[wpsm_titlebox title="" style="3"] By Majbaul Alam and Subhes Bhattacharyya Academic Editor: Josep M. Guerrero Journal: Energies Received: 23 November 2015 / Accepted: 21 March 2016 / Published: 6 April 2016 [/wpsm_titlebox] The energy poor, at the bottom of the economic…
Read more →Cheaper, Cleaner, Stronger: Pew Charitable Trust On Microgrids' Growing Role in Grid Evolution
Microgrids were a focal point at this year's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit , which took place in Washington, D.C. February 29 – March 2. During the energy industry event, Pew Charitable Trust's Clean Energy Initiative presented new market research highlighting…
Read more →Solar Microgrids Could Yield Substantial Savings at City-wide Scale
Researchers from MIT, Italian and Saudi universities modeled installation and use of 20 microgrids with residential solar penetration of 0% and 20% in MIT's hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Overall results showed average daily savings in power consumption of nearly 5kW as well as improved resilience to power outages.
Read more →Energy Efficiency Financing More than Doubles in 2015
Corporate funding in the energy efficiency sector more than doubled to nearly $1.2 billion in 2015, with debt and public market financing accounting for nearly 60% of total venture capital (VC) and corporate funding of energy efficiency companies, a good sign the market is maturing and that bankers and investors are becoming more comfortable with risks and rewards.
Read more →DOE Announces Grid Modernization R&D Projects, Partners, and Funding
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced it will fund up to $220 million of R&D projects to modernize America's aging power grid infrastructure over the next three years. Accompanying this, DOE released its ¨Grid Modernization Multi-Year Program Plan¨ (MYPP), a…
Read more →New CalCharge Leader Aims to Create Energy Storage Industry Hub
Founded in 2014 by the non-profit California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), CalCharge is leveraging its growing roster of member companies and working relationships with three San Francisco Bay area national labs to create an energy storage R&D and industry hub…
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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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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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