| | | | | | | | Today's News from the Editors of Microgrid Knowledge | | |
| | | By Kathy Hitchens Marine Corps Air Station Miramar has added a 1.5 MW / 3.3 MWh battery energy storage system that will reduce the installation’s demand on the local power grid and maximize the use of the renewable landfill gas energy generator when the system is islanded. |
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| | | | | | Oil and gas operations account for about 15% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Decarbonizing the drilling sector significantly with electrification, such as potential microgrids, could offer a substantially growing market opportunity. |
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| | | | | | Chelsea’s virtual microgrid could serve as a model for deploying distributed energy resources from the community up, changing the architecture of the aging grid, say developers of the project, which broke ground early this month. It’s expected to provide energy justice, environmental and resilience benefits. |
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| | | | | | We’re not saying these are the only or most important microgrid efforts, but we are saying they cover most situations and intrigued many of our readers. They also prove significant for the industries or sectors they serve. |
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| | | | When the Maplewood Intermediate/Middle School opens in Menasha, WI, next year, it will be home to a solar and energy storage microgrid that is expected to save the local school district $190,000 in annual energy costs. |
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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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| | | | “Houston has to step up its game on the resiliency front. We need to be prepared for high wind and high water, heat and flooding,” said the city’s resilience officer. The city is deploying a microgrid in the first of about 12 neighborhoods that need resiliency for police, fire, water and other critical services. |
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| | | | With former President Donald Trump returning to the presidency, some members of the clean energy industry are worried about the fate of the Inflation Reduction Act, along with other federal policies that support clean energy. But Tim Hade, co-founder of Scale Microgrids, sees an opportunity with the new administration to reduce red tape that undermines... |
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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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| | 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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