Bangladesh Emerges as a Hotbed for Solar Microgrids, P2P Energy Trading
Bangladeshi clean enegy entrepreneurs are playing a key role in the installation of home solar PV-energy storage and community microgrids in Bangladesh. Access to reliable, safe and affordable emissions-free electricity is improving lives and livelihoods throughout the country.
Read more →Zimbabwe Off-Grid Solar Start-up Lands Kiva Direct to Social Enterprise Loan
Providing mobile "pay as you go" home solar loans, Zonful Energy tapped into Kiva's new Direct to Social Enterprise Fund to secure a $50,000 loan that will enable it to deploy the PAYG mobile payments soloution to remote and rural areas.
Read more →Blockchain Underpins Germany’s NEW 4.0 100 Percent Renewable Energy Plan
Envisaged as a milestone on the path to a distributed, all-renewable energy infrastructure, Germany's NEW 4.0 project is to make use of a Blockchain-based platform that incorporates smart contracts, a distributed ledger and open smart energy exchange.
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Brooklyn Startup Opens Doors To P2P Energy Storage Exchange
Back in the 1990s the advent of peer-to-peer (P2P) computing sites such as Napster turned reproduction and distribution of music, then TV programs and films, upside down and inside out. A small Brooklyn startup is now looking to do the…
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Connecting the Dots Along the Emerging Energy Internet of Things
Aiming to unify distributed renewable energy, energy storage and smart grid systems – not to mention numerous and varied connected devices and equipment in homes, businesses and industry – microgrids have quickly emerged as a key element of integrated climate-energy…
Read more →Tesla-SolarCity Swoops In On Nascent Island Microgrid Market
Successive news announcements makes it clear that Tesla-SolarCity has had its eyes on island solar-storage microgrids for quite some time.
Read more →Borrego Springs Microgrid: From Proof of Concept to Project Development Showcase
Created as a result of grid outage, Borrego Springs' "solar plust storage" microgrid has evolved from a "proof of concept" to the town's primary source of electricity, as well as testing ground for utility customer demand response and innovative clean energy solutions.
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 →A Solar-Plus-Storage Microgrid at a South Pacific Resort Collects SEANZ Award For PowerSmart
PowerSmart garnered two first-prize awards at the Solar Electricity Association of New Zealand's annual conference, one for an off-grid solar PV-energy stoarge min-grid being built for the Vanabuku luxury residentital resort project and another grid-connected prize for an installation at New Zealand's Yealands Estate Winery.
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…
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Packed bed thermal energy storage: A simplified experimentally validated model
Thermal energy storage in packed beds is receiving increased attention as a necessary component for efficient implementation of concentrated solar power plants. A simplified, one-equation thermal model for the behavior of a packed bed is presented for a-alumina as solid…
Read more →The Largest Central American Microgrid is Officially Operational in Costa Rica Medical Plant
Establishment Labs, S.A. has commissioned a solar-plus-storage microgrid at their medical manufacturing plant in Costa Rica, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by Costa Rican President Louis Guillermo Solís. The heart of the project is a 500-kW / 1 MWh lithium-ion…
Read more →UK Blockchain Startup Aims to Revamp Energy Sector from the Top-Down
Electron is working with U.K. gas and electricity market stakeholders in a bid to convince them of the advantages and benefits to be gained from migrating from a hodgepodge of systems currently used to track ownership and operation of grid assets, customer billing, accounts and the like to an open, yet all but incorruptible distributed online ledger and transaction system, such as its Ethereum Blockchain-based platform.
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Will Autonomous Electric Vehicles Be The Real Electric Monopoly Utility Killer?
The bulk power system we’ve relied on for the last century is remarkably inefficient. Due to waste heat and transmission losses, less than 30% of energy inputs in thermal power plants actually make it to residential electric meters. Distributed energy…
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"It's Like The Early Days Of The Internet," As Energy Markets Brace for Blockchain Disruption
“When the internet was first introduced, it was hard to conceive of the drastic impact it would have on the world. We’ve got all the parts to do some really interesting things Scott Clavenna - CEO of Greentech Media on…
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San Diego Seeking Energy Storage Proposals As Part of Major Preferred Energy Resources Procurement
Following through on its commitment and legal obligation to help meet California’s clean energy and climate change mitigation goals, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is seeking out proposals to add as much as 140 MW of ¨preferred energy resources¨…
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Tesla Building Largest Lithium Ion Battery Storage Project In The World After Aliso Canyon Fallout
Upon completion, this system will be the largest lithium ion battery storage project in the world. Tesla was the only bidder awarded a utility-owned storage project out of the solicitation. Tesla has announced a major Los Angeles, California energy storage…
Read more →Off-Grid Solar Start-ups Pierce the ¨Heart of Darkness¨
Expanding in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, an innovative off-grid solar energy start-up conceived at Colorado State University aims to leverage mobile micropayments to deliver low and zero-emissions electricity to residents of remote communities in Peru's Amazon.
Read more →January 18-19th - ACI's 5th National Microgrids Conference - Somona, California
[wpsm_button color="orange" size="medium" link=" http://www.wplgroup.com/aci/event/5th-national-microgrids-conference/ " icon="none" class="" target="_blank"]Archived: See Upcoming Events Here[/wpsm_button] KEY TOPICS Deploying Microgrids for achieving strategic energy objectives, such as developing storage capacity and increasing energy efficiency Integrating renewable energy sources with Microgrids Innovative solutions to…
Read more →WEBINAR: Liberating Microgrids (and all DER) Aligning Customer Needs with Solutions Provider Offerings
[wpsm_titlebox title="Navigant Webinars" style="3"] Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Time: 2:00 pm EST [/wpsm_titlebox] [wpsm_button color="orange" size="big" link="http://www.navigantresearch.com/webinar/liberating-microgrids-and-all-der" icon="none" class=""]Watch Replay[/wpsm_button] This Navigant Research webinar will explore perspectives on what is and what is not a microgrid. More importantly, it…
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