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    May 12, 2025
    Karina Hershberg, associate principal at PAE Consulting Engineers, tried twice to design DC microgrids for commercial clients–and says numerous challenges stood in the way. Others...

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    June 13, 2025
    Take a closer look at propane — a resilient energy source that reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 52 percent compared with grid electricity.
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    June 14, 2022
    Joe Williams, distributed energy resources product manager at Eaton, explains why interconnection is a top barrier to activating a microgrid.
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    Climate disasters have disrupted the electric grid over the last decade, highlighting the vulnerability and brittleness of the system. Credit: Shutterstock.com
    Jan. 10, 2022
    A series of climate disasters has disrupted the electric grid over the last decade, highlighting the vulnerability and brittleness of the system. Learn about Think Microgrid’s...
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    Feb. 9, 2021
    California regulators this week will take up a plan to pay distributed energy resources (DERs) used by utilities as non-wires alternatives.
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    Sept. 17, 2020
    A new European project, TIGON, will develop technology and demonstrate how direct current (DC) microgrids can help the European Union’s (EU) electricity grids become greener, ...
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    Nov. 20, 2019
    Texas consumers could save $5.47 billion over ten years with distributed energy resources (DERs), but several necessary rule changes are hobbling along.
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    Aug. 26, 2019
    Get ready for an electric grid that requires almost no human intervention.
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    Aug. 14, 2018
    Yasmin Ali, a London-based writer for Microgrid Knowledge, offers insight into the ongoing restructuring of the UK grid, as distributed energy increasingly gives consumers an ...