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A Hug for Helping Deploy a Microgrid Fleet That Addresses Unreliable Power in The Bahamas

Jan. 21, 2025
Microgrid fleets are being deployed in The Bahamas, Alameda County, California and in the U.K. to provide energy resilience, lower carbon emissions and explore new energy options...

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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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Power Ahead to a Closer Look at Microgrids for Energy Intensive Companies

Jan. 16, 2025
Ron Beck, a longtime senior director and solutions expert at AspenTech, and strategic planning director TJ Surbella will guide a discussion on the value of industrial microgrids...
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Colorado Roadmap Identifies Outage-Prone Communities and Microgrid Deployment Challenges

Jan. 13, 2025
Some Colorado communities are grappling with climate-change induced heat, wildfires, drought and blizzards, along with long feeder lines. To address the outages that these challenges...
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The Wendy’s Microgrid: Beefing up Fast Food with On-Site Solar and Battery Storage

Jan. 8, 2025
A Wendy’s location in California will soon join the growing list of quick service restaurants using microgrids to reduce emissions and save on energy costs.
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8 Promises Fulfilled in 2024: Significant New Microgrid Projects Move Forward to Highlight a Year of Thankful Progress

Jan. 6, 2025
We’re not saying these are the only or most important microgrid efforts, but we are saying they cover most situations and intrigued many of our readers. They also prove significant...
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How Microgrids and DERs Can Deliver Value to California Schools and Public Agencies with Local Energy

Jan. 6, 2025
Here’s one way local energy would work: A school with building rooftops covered with solar could produce excess electricity to serve the campus and its neighbors. Batteries that...
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Lone Star Adoption: Texas Microgrid Growth Up Nearly 20X in Past 10 Years

Jan. 2, 2025
Since early 2021, when Winter Storm Uri’s extended freeze caused 52 GW in lost grid capacity and eventually led to more than 100 deaths, commercial customers have added nearly...
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What Will Drive Clean Energy, DER Progress in 2025? Expert Panel Weighs In

Dec. 30, 2024
During a World Resources Institute teleconference, a panel of experts predicted that the Trump administration may implement changes to the Inflation Reduction Act, Environmental...