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| | | By Lisa Cohn 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 combine with solar to create a microgrid would capture the solar and use it in the late afternoon and overnight. |
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| | | | | | 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 100 defined microgrids statewide. |
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| | | | | | Here at Microgrid Knowledge we keep tabs on who is doing what to contribute to the buildup of microgrids everywhere. We offer this growing list of companies involved in development and consultation for microgrid installations. |
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| | | | | | “The whole idea is to network everything” said the Interstate Renewable Energy Council’s (IREC) Carlos Alberto Velázquez. A community energy resilience plan from IREC intends to pave the way for networking two existing multi-property microgrids and other distributed energy resources in Castañer, Puerto Rico. The plan also calls for creating resilience... |
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| | | | Electricity access is a persistent issue across Africa, particularly in the sub-Saharan region that is home to most of the nearly 600 million people on the continent without affordable electricity. Minigrids have proven themselves a key electrification strategy that’s up to solving this herculean challenge. |
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| | | | Sponsored | | 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 vectors increasing by about 60 a day. What’s more, extreme weather events also place the grid and power supply at risk... |
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| | | | During a World Resources Institute teleconference, a panel of experts predicted that the Trump administration may implement changes to the Inflation Reduction Act, Environmental Protection Agency financing, the Solar for All program and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, undermining clean energy development in 2025. But they pointed to the gains... |
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| | | | With data center, electrification and manufacturing increases boosting demand for clean, reliable power, new tariffs – designed to encourage investment in clean distributed energy resources – are cropping up, according to a new report from Deloitte Consulting. New models are also emerging, such as a trend toward co-locating data centers with clean ... |
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| | | | Developers, energy technology firms and end users are making the grade in uniting resiliency with sustainability. When it comes to state-level policy making, however, the efforts are falling short of helping microgrids realize their full potential as a key asset at the intersection of resiliency and sustainability. |
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| | The grid-connected microgrids were installed by Sprocket Power and are expected to reduce dealers’ net utility bills by up to 90%. |
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