| | | | | | | | Today's News from the Editors of Microgrid Knowledge | | |
| | | By Lisa Cohn As the state grapples with power outages, “Maine is getting it right,” setting the stage for microgrid deployment. Two examples include a microgrid that will provide resilience and energy autonomy for Penobscot Nation and a proposed microgrid in Eastport that will be powered by solar and tidal energy... |
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| | | | | | Google, AWS and Microsoft joined Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) along with the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor, ratepayer advocate Citizens Action Coalition and Data Center Coalition on the settlement that requires new large load customers to make long-term financial commitments. |
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| | | | | | NRG Energy and Renew Home have announced plans to create a 1-GW AI-powered virtual power plant in Texas, delivering capacity equivalent to that of 200,000 homes during peak demand. |
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| | | | | | The devices rising to the top of the modern and future economic and technological food chains are almost all DC, such as computers, solar cells, electric vehicles, batteries and fuel cells. |
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| | | | Hydrostor has signed a 65-year Crown Lands lease that brings the Silver City Energy Storage Center one step closer to fruition. The project includes advanced compressed air long-duration energy storage and a minigrid that will improve energy stability in Broken Hill, a remote outback mining community in the Far West region of New South Wales. |
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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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| | | | With the town of Cherokee, N.C., facing climate-change induced wildfires, extreme heat and flooding, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is using a $5 million EPA grant to deploy an off-grid solar microgrid and electric buses that can serve as mobile microgrids. |
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| | | | 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 power three city water and sewer facilities. |
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| | | | As utilities begin to embrace the benefits of deploying distributed energy resources, different models are emerging for how utilities and their customers can participate. Programs from Sunrun and Sparkfund are two examples. |
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| | How is a microgrid defined? A few different definitions exist. Here we set out to explain what we mean by ‘microgrid’ at Microgrid Knowledge. |
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