Utility Distribution Microgrid
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 →TenneT, IBM Launch Pilot Distributed Energy-Blockchain Projects in Germany and the Netherlands
The pioneering, utility-scale distributed energy-grid integraion projects will incorporate utility customers electric vehicle (EV) and household battery storage capacity and make use of a permissioned blockchain transaction/database system to be built by IBM using the Hyperledger Fabric platform.
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 →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 →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 →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 →Military, Utilities Key to Microgrid Growth, Multi-Stakeholder Ownership Models
U.S. installed microgrid capacity will more than double out to 2020 as growing participation on the part of utilities and the military in microgrids owned by multiple stakeholders fuel growth, according to GTM Research.
Read more →How Can Microgrids and Utilities Become Best Buds?
The term microgrid used to give utility executives sleepless nights and indigestion. These small, self-reliant systems would pop up, seemingly like mushrooms, within a utility’s service territory, threatening both the utility’s resource plan and its obligation to serve reliable power.…
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