EverGreenCoin Renewables Aims To Support Solar Power
Over the past two years, we’ve seen a growing connection between cryptocurrency technology and environmental efforts. This is a partnership not many people were talking about when bitcoin first emerged and launched the era of cryptocurrency, but we’re now beginning…
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 →June 12-14, 2017: Microgrids Meet the Markets from Infocast in Washington D.C.
Capitalize on Advanced Microgrid Opportunities The microgrid market is expanding rapidly: with estimated CAGR of 16-20%, it is projected to reach as much as $35.1B by 2020. Government programs to enhance resiliency of military, university, state and hospital (MUSH) facilities…
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 →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 →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 →Strong Growth in 1Q Venture Capital Smart Grid, Energy Efficiency Funding
A new generation of battery-based energy storage, energy efficiency and smart grid technologies are being combined to serve as core elements of zero or low-emissions microgrids designed to aggregate and manage networks of distributed energy resources (DERs) in residential and…
Read more →IOTA Tangle Takes the Blocks Out of Peer-to-Peer, Distributed Ledger Networks
IOTA Tangle resolves key questions regarding blockchain-based transaction and distributed ledger systems, holding out the prospect of throwing the doors of e-mobility wide open.
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 →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 →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 →Pioneering Ventura County Manufacturer Rides the Lithium-Ion Battery Wave
With roots in film and television, SimpliPhi Power has acquired an enviable reputation as a developer and manufacturer of an expanding range of mobile and stationary Li-ion battery energy storage and management systems.
Read more →Competition Heats Up in Kenya’s Off-Grid, Mobile Pay-Go Solar Market
An average 800 Kenyan households per day are signing up for d.light's new D30 off-grid solar home system.
Read more →VizN to Build Solar-Flow Battery Microgrid at Luxury Nicaraguan Residential Resort
The 200kW/800kWh zinc-iron flow battery will be linked with an 800kWp PV solar array to provide multiple energy services at the Ranco Santana luxury residential/vacation resort on Nicaragua's Pacific coast.
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.
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