Watch This Fishing Village In Haiti Get Transformed by A Solar Microgrid
Sigora Solar recently completed a solar powered microgrid in Mole Saint Nicolas, Haiti - a remote fishing village seven hours by truck from Port Au Prince. Sigora is a for-profit company that bills themselves as the green utility. The microgrid…
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 →How Multilateral Development Banks Can Embrace Decentralized Renewables
The Executive Summary from 'Decentralized Renewables: The Fast Track Track To Universal Energy Access,' is republished with permission from PowerForAll. Please visit their resource page for more resources and to download the full paper. The international community is united by…
Read more →The Alaska Center for Microgrid Technologies Commercialization Announces Competition
The Alaska Center for Microgrid Technologies Commercialization (ACMTC) competition is now open. The competition is a collaborative effort involving ACEP, the Business Enterprise Institute, the Alaska Small Business Development Center, and the Center for Economic Development. Its purpose is to…
Read more →Clean India Microgrids To Benefit From Kerosene Subsidy Reform
According to Debajit Palit, the microgrid sector is ready to scale up rapidly in India when improved services can be " offered at or below the monthly expenditure incurred on kerosene ." The cost of solar solutions has declined, and…
Read more →Scaling up Microgrids in India: Connecting the dots
The Prime Minister of India has been saying that electricity will be brought to all villages by 2018 with power available 24x7 to all households by the year 2019. The task, however, appears easier said than done as currently, more…
Read more →Elon Musk Explains Why The Tesla-SolarCity Merger Is All About Microgrids
Tesla offered to buy SolarCity last week for $2.8 billion , causing confusion and criticism from some TESLA shareholders who saw the offer as a distraction from their core business. Elon Musk asked shareholders to to examine the deal in…
Read more →El Hierro – The leading example for renewable integration on islands?
El Hierro is a frequently cited example for renewable integration on islands, but microgrid expert Martin Baart " couldn't disagree more ," here's why: There is no business case Duration of project implementation There is no use of leading technologies…
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.…
Read more →TESLA Makes Bid To Buy SolarCity To Become Vertically Integrated Clean Energy Company
TESLA made a surprise offer today to acquire SolarCity in an effort to become a vertically-integrated clean energy provider. Noting that their mission has always been sustainability, TESLA notes that while they offer electric vehicles and energy storage, their customers…
Read more →India Drafts ‘National Policy for Renewable Energy based Micro Grids and Mini Grids'
India's challenges to reach renewable energy targets include an already unstable grid, a crippling drought (hindering thermal generation and hydropower), and reaching the 237 million citizens who still require access to electricity. According to a new draft proposal by India's…
Read more →Off-grid: When hybrid plus storage makes sense
Reducing the reliance on costly diesel-based power generation is high on the list of priorities for off-grid operators around the world. PV-hybrid systems alone can only go so far in meeting this need. The addition of storage can significantly alter…
Read more →The ABC Approach to Microgrid Development in Frontier Markets
Addressing this financial issue is an emerging model for rural microgrid installation, the phased “ABC” deployment approach. This approach is based on first addressing an (A) anchor client (typically the largest user in a community), next expanding the system to…
Read more →July 12-13th | Alexandria, VA | Military Mobile Power Summit by Defense Strategies Institute
The 4 th Annual Military Mobile Power Summit will focus on the efforts to advance military mobile power and energy capabilities. It will discuss the methods that have been, or will be put into place in order to meet evolving…
Read more →June 22 to 24 June, 2016 | 2nd Off-Grid Power Forum at Intersolar Europe | Munich, Germany
OFF-GRID POWER FORUM "THE WORLD SPEAKS OFF-GRID" Based on last year’s success and the positive feedback received from industry and governments, Intersolar Europe together with the Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE), the German Solar Association (BSW-Solar) and the conference organiser…
Read more →California Energy Commission Taking Steps To Commercialize Microgrids In State
The California Energy Commission is hosting a workshop to begin developing a roadmap to help commercialize microgrids in California Wednesday, May 24 at 1:30 p.m. (Pacific time). The workshop will introduce a proposed work scope and describe the process for…
Read more →June 20-23rd | St. Paul, Minnesota | IDEA's 107th Annual Conference and Trade Show
The IDEA Annual Conference and Trade Show , held each year since 1909, brings together global industry experts on resilient microgrids, combined heat & power and sustainable energy technologies for cities, campuses and communities. The three-day event includes compelling presentations,…
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Unusual Renewable Energy Sources May Help Reduce Carbon Emissions
In a 2012 study from Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology , researchers from the University of Almería discovered that the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into biomass by microalgae could reduce overall CO2 emissions by up to 80 percent. That figure…
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…
Read more →Forecasting Optimizes Solar-diesel Hybrid Microgrids
An improved forecasting of weather changes can reduce the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) for solar-diesel hybrid microgrids by optimizing the investment costs for storage and improving the operations of the diesel gensets and storage systems Balancing the intermittencies in…
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