Microgrid Knowledge - Apr 19th, 2024
 
 
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April 19, 2024
Today's News from the Editors of Microgrid Knowledge
By Lisa Cohn
Up until recently, large load facilities have had a backup solution and have been grid connected. But because of grid constraints, they are choosing to be off-grid, according to Elham Akhavan of Wood Mackenzie.
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The new factory, coupled with ELM’s manufacturing site in nearby Oklahoma, will help the company increase its production line to about 1,000 microgrids annually. ELM also is moving its UK partner Naked Energy’s Virtu solar thermal technology manufacturing operations into The Colony site.
A consortium of three companies will build the hybrid microgrids in three off-grid areas of the country.
Chick-fil-A is piloting solar microgrids at two California locations to improve resilience and better serve the community during grid outages. A third location in the state will get a microgrid later this year.
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Bidirectional school buses are new to schools. That’s creating many learning opportunities for the partners proposing the Wy’East Community Resilience Project, which aims to use a bidirectional school bus to help power a solar microgrid at a middle school in a low- to moderate- income community.
Microgrids are a true solution, but they need to align with the crucial Ps and Qs required to make distributed energy happen in the service of e-mobility. Those include planning and performance, quality and quotient.
A northern California tribe whose people have lived in the region for countless generations celebrated groundbreaking this week on a $32 million solar and storage microgrid to support energy resiliency at its casino and resort. The Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians and the California Energy Commission (CEC) are collaborating on the solar and energy...
VPPs also have the potential to significantly ease current energy challenges, improve grid reliability and advance the state’s efforts to create a sustainable and reliable energy system.
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