Resiliency
Hanscom AFB Teams with Noresco to Realize $94 Million in Guaranteed Energy Savings
Hanscom AFB is slated to realize $94 million on a $46 million investment in the guaranteed energy savings performance contract with Noresco, the cornerstone of which will be a 4.6MW co-generation plant.
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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.
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 →Public-Private Partnership Results in Low-Carbon Community Microgrid for Blue Lake Rancheria Native American Tribe
Joining with the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe, Siemens, REC Solar, Tesla, the Idaho National Laboratory and Humboldt State Uiversity launched a solar PV-battery energy storage community microgrid in northern California.
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 →Schneider Electric Unveils Hybrid Microgrid at its Boston One Campus
Incoporating natural gas, solar PV, energy storage and a new suite of advanced microgrid controls and cloud analytics, the hybrid microgrid at Schneider Electric's Boston One Campus will serve as an innovation hub and demonstration center, as well as enhance energy efficiency, security, reliability and resilience.
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 →Denver Solar-Storage Microgrid to Deliver Multiple Service Streams, Benefits Today
Project partners Panasonic, Xcel Energy and Younicos lay out the stream of benefits expected from Peña Station NEXT, a 382-acre, sustainabie transit-oriented “multi-stakeholder ‘portfolio microgrid’ under construction adjacent to Denver International Airport (DEN).
Read more →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 →Self-Driving Batteries, Virtual Microgrids, and Other Uber-like Future Energy Models
This new slideshare from Professor Damien Ernst describes microgrids, V2G (Vehicle To Grid), autonomous vehicle energy delivery, and other futuristic models for the electrical industry. With seemingly daily announcement from car and technology companies, these models are much closer than…
Read more →Jacobs Engineering Group Selected for NJ Transit Microgrid Design and General Engineering
NJ Transit is constructing the first of its kind microgrid that takes advantage of transit infrastructure to harden critical infrastructure. The Project is a result of a partnership between NJ TRANSIT, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, the U.S.…
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 →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 →Contract To Design Six Interconnected Microgrids at Pearl Harbor Goes To Burns & McDonnell
HONOLULU, HAWAII—The High Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) announced today that its Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT) program just awarded a $1.5 million contract to design a series of interconnected microgrids at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH), the first…
Read more →Tabuchi America Joins Electric & Gas Industries Association to Launch “Solar Plus Storage” Loan Program
The US subsidiary of one of the world's largest solar inverter manufacturers, Tabuchi has partnered with energy efficiency and renewable energy advocacy EGIA to launch the $300 million GEOSmart SolPower residential solar-plus-storage financing program, the largest of its kind to date.
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 →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…
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