| | | | | | | | Today's News from the Editors of Microgrid Knowledge | | |
| | | By Lisa Cohn During a World Resources Institute teleconference, a panel of experts predicted that the Trump administration may implement changes to the Inflation Reduction Act, Environmental Protection Agency financing, the Solar for All program and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, undermining clean energy... |
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| | | | | | Since early 2021, when Winter Storm Uri’s extended freeze caused 52 GW in lost grid capacity and eventually led to more than 100 deaths, commercial customers have added nearly 100 defined microgrids statewide. |
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| | | | | | “The whole idea is to network everything” said the Interstate Renewable Energy Council’s (IREC) Carlos Alberto Velázquez. A community energy resilience plan from IREC intends to pave the way for networking two existing multi-property microgrids and other distributed energy resources in Castañer, Puerto Rico. The plan also calls for creating resilience... |
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| | | | | | Electricity access is a persistent issue across Africa, particularly in the sub-Saharan region that is home to most of the nearly 600 million people on the continent without affordable electricity. Minigrids have proven themselves a key electrification strategy that’s up to solving this herculean challenge. |
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| | | | Developers, energy technology firms and end users are making the grade in uniting resiliency with sustainability. When it comes to state-level policy making, however, the efforts are falling short of helping microgrids realize their full potential as a key asset at the intersection of resiliency and sustainability. |
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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 data center, electrification and manufacturing increases boosting demand for clean, reliable power, new tariffs – designed to encourage investment in clean distributed energy resources – are cropping up, according to a new report from Deloitte Consulting. New models are also emerging, such as a trend toward co-locating data centers with clean ... |
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| | | | 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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| | | | 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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| | 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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| | | | | | Sponsored | | Energy saved is revenue kept. Discover how mid-size businesses like yours can adopt energy procurement strategies proven by top-performing organizations to reduce costs and improve efficiency. |
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