Microgrid Projects

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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Microgrids: Enhancing Grid Resilience and Shaping the Future of Energy Distribution

Dec. 18, 2024
As we move toward decarbonization and increased electrification, these localized power systems offer unique advantages in terms of reliability, flexibility and energy independence...

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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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How Microgrids can Help meet Food & Beverage Industry Needs while Lowering Costs

Dec. 9, 2024
This article, by Robert Autengruber, senior product manager for INNIO Group’s Jenbacher product line, illustrates how microgrids can provide cost savings to the food & beverage...
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Duke Energy Celebrates New Fleet Electrification Center Featuring Microgrid Link

Nov. 21, 2024
The goal of the Duke Energy + Electrada Fleet Mobility Microgrid, its planners say, is to create a model for utility-scale fleet electrification charging of light-, medium- and...
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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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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 ...