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    Direct Current Microgrids: DC Proponents Say It’s the One Direction to Go

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    Nuclear Hitch: Can FERC Rejection Threaten Data Center Power Deals?

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted 2-1 to scuttle a request by plant owner Talen Energy and PJM to transfer some 480 MW of power to help support a new data center ...
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    What Microgrids Offer the Golden State Could Prove a Golden Opportunity Globally

    The solution to these problems isn’t more transmission lines or fossil-fuel-powered peaker plants. The solution is decentralizing the grid, making it more flexible, resilient,...
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    Baltimore Utility Awarded $50M Grant for Grid Resilience Projects, Microgrids

    Baltimore Gas and Electric will use the funds to assess the broad adoption and effectiveness of small-scale microgrids that can serve as community resiliency hubs.
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    New Microgrid Provides Resilience to U.S. Navy Submarine Base in Connecticut

    The new microgrid, which includes a 7.4-MW natural gas-fired fuel cell park and a 10.75-MW combined heat and power system, can fully power Naval Submarine Base New London in the...
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    MGK QuickChat: The Intersection of SCADA and Power Generation

    Emerson’s Brett Benson shares his view of the future of power generation in this QuickChat interview for Microgrid Knowledge’s Rod Walton.
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    The Microgrid Compass is Pointing North: Five Takeaways from This Year’s Rural Energy Conference for Alaska

    Given the enormous stakes and one-time funding opportunities currently on the table for rural energy microgrid projects, this could be a turning point moment in Alaska’s history...
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    Two VPP Models Help Utilities and their Customers Reap the Benefits of DERs and Microgrids

    As utilities begin to embrace the benefits of deploying distributed energy resources, different models are emerging for how utilities and their customers can participate. Programs...
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    Historic Indiana City Turns On New Water and Sewer Utility Microgrid

    The hybrid microgrid will leverage floating solar panels, a battery energy storage system and biogas and natural gas connections to provide roughly 40% of the power needed to ...

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    Revolutionizing Defense: The Crucial Role of Microgrids and Schneider Electric in Department of Defense Energy Resiliency

    Last month, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) said that U.S. power grids are becoming more susceptible to cyberattacks every day, with vulnerable attack...

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    Quickchat: How SCADA Can Manage and Make Sense of Renewable and Distributed Energy Data

    Managing editor Rod Walton spoke with Brett Benson, marketing director for global renewable energy solutions at global automation technology and software firm Emerson...

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    7 Strategies to Make Microgrids a Fit for Utility Grid Modernization

    In 2022, Enchanted Rock and Microgrid Knowledge conducted a survey of leaders at large U.S. electric utilities. The goal was to understand their actions and attitudes around microgrid...

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    Microgrid Standardization Will Accelerate Much Needed Adoption

    Demand for microgrids is growing in large part because they offer resilience for today’s energy needs. Microgrids are just one example of distributed energy resources. They generate...
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    3 reasons your microgrid controls should be able to communicate in real time

    Tom Poteet, vice president of corporate development at Mesa Solutions, outlines three things a microgrid controller should be able to do: accept control commands, engage in site...