• Generation/Fuels

    Here you will find videos on microgrid generation and different types of fuel and generators for distributed energy
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    Nuclear in the Oil Patch: Natura, Texas Tech Exploring SMR to Power Water Desalination from Shale Drilling

    Feb. 20, 2025
    This collaboration, which includes the Texas Produced Water Consortium (TxPWC) at Texas Tech, focuses on integrating Natura’s MSR-100 technology to provide a sustainable solution...

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    Key Microgrid Trends Impacting the New Energy Landscape

    Feb. 10, 2025
    As we enter 2025, microgrids are driving the evolution of the New Energy Landscape, fueled by advancements in renewable energy and smart technology. I see several transformati...
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    On (Site) and Off (Grid): Industrial Electrification Future May Avoid Utility Interconnections

    Feb. 18, 2025
    The current and anticipated growth of load demand from new data centers is propelling the notion of massive behind-the-meter projects to meet future load necessitated by the growth...
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    Gas-fired Microgrids to Power Data Centers at Heart of New VoltaGrid-Vantage Deal

    Feb. 12, 2025
    Surging demand for AI and data centers is lifting Vantage’s bottom line in keeping pace with data center growth. The company last year launched new campuses in Dublin, Zurich,...
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    Guidiville Indian Rancheria Installing Harnyss Microgrid at California Tribal HQ

    Feb. 12, 2025
    The Harnyss microgrid will be paired with solar power on tribal grounds. The Guidiville Rancheria is a federally recognized Pomo tribe based in Mendocino County, California.
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    GE Hitachi Signs SMR Nuclear Deals with UK Engineering Firms

    Feb. 6, 2025
    GE Hitachi Nuclear hopes to start construction on installing the SMR sometime in the middle of this decade and has estimated it can build those for about $1 billion per project...
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    SMR Nuclear Microgrids: They Might Become a Texas Thing if A&M Has its Way

    Feb. 5, 2025
    The CEOs from all four startups—Kairos Power, Natura Resources, Terrestrial Energy and Aalo Atomics—have agreed to begin preliminary moves to locate small reactor work to the ...
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    The nanogrid team: (Left to right) Branden Kurpenski, Production Manager, Sesame Solar; Gail Vaucher, Project Leader, Army Research Laboratory; Carol J. Bailey, SR Project Manager and Engineer, ERDC-CERL; Trish Cutler, Wildlife Biologist, WSMR Garrison Environmental Division; Nikmil Raj Nune, Engineering Manager, Sesame Solar and Benito F. Perez, Research Engineer, ERDC CERL (Courtesy Photo by Miriam Rodriguez)

    U.S. Army Unveils its First Hydrogen-Powered Nanogrid

    Feb. 3, 2025
    Located at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the system will power a wildlife surveillance camera system and a weather station.
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    Chevron, GE Vernova and Engine No. 1 United to Provide Gas-Fired Power Directly to New Data Centers

    Jan. 29, 2025
    The aim of the new GE-Chevron-Engine No. 1 partnership is to construct a first-ever GW-scale power plant co-located with a data center and do it well before the end of President...