Design/Engineering

These videos focus on the design/engineering aspects of microgrids. Learn about emerging tech, the future of microgrids, and grid integration.
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Microgrids: Enhancing Grid Resilience and Shaping the Future of Energy Distribution

Dec. 18, 2024
As we move toward decarbonization and increased electrification, these localized power systems offer unique advantages in terms of reliability, flexibility and energy independence...

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

Sept. 13, 2024
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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SOLSTICE Microgrid Construction Under Way at the Edge of New Brunswick

Dec. 17, 2024
The solar portion of the SOLSTICE microgrid is being installed on the roofs of the city of Edmundston's Jean-Daigle Centre and the Sports Pavilion. Ameresco is working on the ...
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Ports of Stockholm Demonstrating Microgrid Technology at Nearby Port

Dec. 2, 2024
The demonstration project for the collaborative effort--connecting wind, solar and battery storage--is starting in the Port of Kapellskär, one of several cargo and passenger ports...
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Direct Current Microgrids: DC Proponents Say It’s the One Direction to Go

Nov. 27, 2024
The devices rising to the top of the modern and future economic and technological food chains are almost all DC, such as computers, solar cells, electric vehicles, batteries ...
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MGK QuickChat: The Intersection of SCADA and Power Generation

Nov. 6, 2024
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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Will Heegaard, Footprint Project, left, and Cade Spencer, Renewable Design Associates, installing a POP-UP EMERGENCY CRITICAL SERVICES MICROGRID at CooperRiis Mental Health Halfway house for lights and refrigerators on day three of the Helene recovery

After Hurricane Helene, Pop-Up Microgrids Powered Medical Clinics, Water Generators, Communications Equipment and Other Critical Resources

Oct. 21, 2024
After Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina, knocking out power, killing 95 and flooding roads and neighborhoods, requests for help in the form of solar microgrids poured...
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California Bill Supports EV Bidirectional Charging ... But Incentives and Regulations Needed to Realize Benefits

Oct. 9, 2024
SB 59, recently signed into law, could lead to the California Energy Commission (CEC) requiring classes of EVs sold in California to include bidirectional charging capability....
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Next-Gen Nuclear Milestone: NRC Approves Construction Permit for Natura Test Reactor

Sept. 17, 2024
Developer Natura Resources would deploy its MSR-1 system at Abilene Christian University and operate the 1-MW in tandem with the school’s Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing ...