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    Microgrids are small, advanced electric grids with features that make them especially adept at managing energy and ensuring its reliable delivery. Here you'll find news and features about the various kinds of microgrids: commercial, remote, military, campus, data center, community, industrial, residential, critical infrastructure and utility microgrids.
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    Baltimore Utility Awarded $50M Grant for Grid Resilience Projects, Microgrids

    Nov. 8, 2024
    Baltimore Gas and Electric will use the funds to assess the broad adoption and effectiveness of small-scale microgrids that can serve as community resiliency hubs.

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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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    Historic Indiana City Turns On New Water and Sewer Utility Microgrid

    Nov. 1, 2024
    The hybrid microgrid will leverage floating solar panels, a battery energy storage system and biogas and natural gas connections to provide roughly 40% of the power needed to ...
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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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    DOE Launches Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership Initiative

    Oct. 11, 2024
    The Department of Energy’s Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership initiative aims to help remote, rural and electrically isolated communities leverage microgrid technologies...
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    Wisconsin Hospital Breaks Ground on 100% Renewable Energy Microgrid

    Oct. 2, 2024
    The microgrid will be connected to a new battery energy storage system, the hospital’s existing rooftop solar array and biogas energy generated by the nearby La Crosse County ...
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    Giraffic Solar Park: Valley Children's Celebrates Construction Start on Microgrid

    Sept. 23, 2024
    Valley Children’s Healthcare in Madura plans to bring the microgrid into operation next year. The facility’s planners hope that the project will generate 80% of the hospital’s...
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    A Plan to Create an Energy Infrastructure in Rwanda Focused on Small Nuclear-Based Microgrids

    Sept. 4, 2024
    Nano Nuclear is working with the Rwandan government to deploy nuclear energy in the form of microreactors and small modular reactors in areas without electricity access. But will...
    Cadet Field Training graduation ceremony for the USMA Class of 2026. Camp Buckner, West Point, NY on June 27, 2023. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo by Christopher Hennen) (The appearance of DoD visuals does not constitute or imply DoD endorsement).

    Battery Storage Supports Summer Cadet Training at U.S. Army West Point

    Aug. 27, 2024
    Viridi’s energy storage contribution is only the start of the microgrid project at West Point. A second, parallel project will work on how to integrate the RPS150 ESS with the...