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Deborah Westlight, operations manager with the Oregon Clean Power Cooperative, raises her arms in celebration of the solar panel portion of the project.

Oregon Agrivoltaics-Based Microgrid Tackles Crop Warming from Climate Change – and May Improve Taste of Lettuce

Oct. 28, 2024
As climate change increases summer temperatures in Oregon, one farm struggling with decreased crop production is deploying a microgrid with agrivoltaics to provide solar, shade...

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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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Solar panels at the Nyagoto birthing center in Kenya. Schneider Electric will partner with United Solar Initiative to build similar microgrids at two birthing clinics in Guatemala. (Source: Schneider Electric)

Microgrids to Provide Life-Saving Benefits to Guatemala Maternal Healthcare Clinics

Oct. 25, 2024
Schneider Electric and United Solar Initiative announced plans to build microgrids at two rural birthing clinics in underserved, largely indigenous communities in Guatemala.
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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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Momentum for Moloka’i Micro Power: Rural Hawaiian Island Seeks 15 Nanogrids

Oct. 18, 2024
The Ho’Ahu Energy Cooperative in Hawaii has issued a request for proposal (RFP) for the design and construction of 15 off-grid solar and battery storage nanogrids on the island...
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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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Brig. Gen. Christopher W. Cook, deputy commanding general of the 63rd Readiness Division; the Honorable Rachel Jacobson, assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment; and Col. Stephen Trotter, Fort Hunter Liggett Garrison Commander - cut the ceremonial ribbon to mark the completion of a $21.8 million microgrid project. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo by Augusta Vargas)

Leading the Charge: 3 Army Installations Launch Pioneering Microgrids

Oct. 1, 2024
The Army and other branches of the military are using microgrids to increase energy independence and resilience at bases around the world while also reducing energy costs and ...
Engineering campus at University Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Image credit By Amphylite - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Campus Microgrid With Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Could Yield 63.5% Reduction in Carbon: Study

Sept. 30, 2024
Report by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and software firm Xendee indicates that SMR nuclear could be cost-competitive to grid power ... if a high carbon tax was ...
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CPUC’s Proposed Microgrid Tariff Decision Seen as Another Blow to Meeting California Climate Goals

Sept. 20, 2024
A proposed California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) decision rejecting community microgrid tariff proposals from nonutility stakeholders would make it difficult to commercialize...