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    Deploying Bidirectional Electric Vehicles to Support the Grid Takes a Leap Forward, Enabling Mobile Microgrids

    March 4, 2025
    Projects by Nuvve and PG&E are just some of the efforts taking place right now to understand how EV batteries can help meet global electricity demand that’s expected to increase...

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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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    Demand Response Can Boost the Economics of Microgrid & DER Projects yet Participation has Stagnated

    Feb. 10, 2025
    Microgrid and DER providers who can take advantage of demand response programs in wholesale markets aren't stepping up. In fact, participation in most markets had stagnated or...
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    DC's Public Service Commission Seeking RFPs for Transactive Neighborhood Renewable Microgrid Pilot

    Jan. 8, 2025
    The project should be sized to target a neighborhood of 50-200 residences and other buildings but can be larger,” reads the Public Service Commission of DC’s document. “Buildings...
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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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    New VPP Business Model Seeks to Transform the Utah Energy Ecosystem

    Sept. 5, 2024
    Rocky Mountain Power, along with battery manufacturer sonnen and solar installer ES Solar, aim to transform nearly 32,000 intermittent solar resources into dispatchable assets...
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    T&D World Perspective: How Microgrids Help Utility Companies Balance Electricity Supply and Demand

    Sept. 3, 2024
    A utility perspective from T&D World: Severe weather, electric vehicles, scorching heat, aging infrastructure, and an influx of new data centers and factories are all making power...
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    Five Questions for the 20s: The Most Compelling Microgrid Challenges of the Decade

    July 11, 2024
    Microgrid Knowledge sought out the prevailing wisdom of long-time industry leaders on the microgrid storylines driving this decade of possibilities and headwinds.
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    Scoring for the Future with a Common Definition: A Taxonomy for Microgrids

    April 20, 2024
    Think Microgrid’s Taxonomy Brief 2024 strives to define microgrids and the role they can play in transforming our energy system.