Solar Startup Harnesses the Power of the Sun and the Mighty Zambesi
Construction of the first three of a planned 12 hybrid solar-hydroelectric microgrids highlights the creative, effective ways multilateral Power Africa off-grid energy program partners are teaming up with African entrepreneurs to bring affordable, reliable, emissions-free electricity access to rural communities for the first time.
Read more →Can Blockchain Gain Traction in Power and Energy Markets?
Touted as the next ¨transformational¨ digital information and communications technology, interest and investment in Blockchain projects and ventures is diffusing out from banking and financial services to include power and energy markets. Several issues serve as barriers, however.
Read more →Hybrid Solar Microgrids Up and Running in Colombia's Forbidding Darièn
Installed by Cali's Tecmac Ingeniera, the five community solar-diesel microgrids have created jobs for locals and reduced pollution and energy costs, thereby improving human and environmental health, safety and integrity
Read more →Schneider Launches New EcoStruxure Energy IoT Architecture and Platform
Schneider is building bridges across the energy and IoT sectors with the latest iteration of its EcoStruxure architecture and platform, which offers an ¨industrial strength¨ energy IoT solution that is open, scalable and interoperable, according to the company.
Read more →USAID, RBL Bank Partner to Expand Off-Grid, Rooftop Solar in India
The $75 million USAID loan guarantee will significantly enhance RBL's ability to extend loans to Indian SMBs installing off-grid and rooftop solar energy systems in poorly served communities, thereby contributing to achieving India's national greenhouse gas reduction, renewable energy and sustainable development goals.
Read more →Postcard From the Future? Ta'u Island Ditches Diesel With Tesla-SolarCity Microgrid
In 'Before The Flood,' Elon Musk tells Leonardo DiCaprio that just 100 Gigafactories would be enough to move the entire world to sustainable energy. While critics scoffed, Tesla and SolarCity were busy building the prototype. Just days after the Tesla-SolarCity…
Read more →Energy Industry First: Siemens, LO3 Energy to Link Blockchain Trading, Microgrid Management Technology
Brooklyn, New York's LO3 Energy is at the leading edge of a fundamental restructuring and retooling of energy production and distribution. A partnership with Siemens should give the startup a big ¨leg up¨ as it seeks to expand use of its Ethereum Blockchain-based, P2P microgrid distributed energy trading software.
Read more →ABB, Indian Institute of Technology Microgrid Partnership To Boost Climate-Smart Rural Electrification Drive
ABB and IIT Madras aim to develop a ¨microgrid of microgrids¨ platform that if successful should make a substantial contribution to realization of India's ambitious renewable energy and rural electrification goals.
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 →A Solar-Storage Microgrid for Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Small in size at 10-kW of solar power and 95-kWh of zinc-iron battery energy storage, the proposed project nonetheless highlights the leading role the National Park Service and other branches of the Federal government can and are playing in reducing greenhouse gas emissions reductions and ramping up use of local renewable energy resources.
Read more →LO3 Energy Takes Blockchain Microgrid Energy Trading Platform Down Under
Brooklyn, NY-based LO3 Energy is leveraging initial demo installations in the U.S. in a bid to expand globally. Management on Nov. 3 announced it has established itself in Byron Bay, Australia where it is in discussions with local energy market players to build demo installations and pilot P2P energy trading platforms based on Ethereum smart contracts and blockchain RDBMS technology.
Read more →U.S. Solar Developer Renewvia Brings Electricity to Rural Areas in Kenya and Developing Countries With Pay-As-You-Go Microgrids
U.S.-based solar developer, Renewvia Energy , is bringing electricity to rural communities in Kenya and other developing countries through pay-as-go solar micro-grids. Most of these communities will be experiencing use of electricity for the first-time. The microgrids are servicing people…
Read more →Solar Microgrid Helps Save Lives, Brighten Prospects in Rural Myanmar
A community solar-energy storage is delivering emissions-free electricity throughout a village in Myanmar's central Dry Zone, enabling health clinic staff to store anti-venom and treat snakebite victims on-site for the first time.
Read more →Microgrid Controller Competition Announced By NREL
The Microgrid Controller Innovation Challenge is one of four initiatives launched under the U.S. Department of Energy-Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's new $2.5 million Lab-Bridge program.
Read more →Twenty Megawatt Solar-Storage Microgrid Installed at the ¨Roof of the World¨
Up and running in Shuanghu on the Tibetan plateau, Sungrow's PV solar-energy storage microgrid provides affordable, reliable emissions-free electricity to more than 14,000 residents.
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 →Solar DC Microgrid Brings Electricity, Light to 800-Year Old Himalayan Village
Private and public organizations including Infosys have joined to support deployment of Global Himalayan Expeditions' solar-powered DC microgrids that are bringing electricity and LED lighting to remote Himalayan villages as the Indian government's carries out its rural electrification program.
Read more →Off-Grid Solar Industry Investments Rise 15-Fold, Total $276 Million in 2015
Two market research reports from the World Bank Group's Global Lighting Program and GOGLA reveal growing use of off-grid solar energy and associated solar products and the beneficial impacts they're making worldwide, particularly in rural and remote communities.
Read more →Vulcan Impact Investing Makes its Mark with Rural Kenya Solar Mini-grids
Vulcan's impact investing team lay out the challenges they have faced, and the solutions they've come up with, in the two years it has owned and operated 10 off-grid, solar-powered mini-grids serving communities in rural Kenya.
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.
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