| | | | | | | | Today's News from the Editors of Microgrid Knowledge | | |
| | | By Rod Walton, Managing Editor New Jersey-based Scale is one of the microgrid sector’s biggest project builders with close to 250 MW of microgrid and community solar projects either in operation or construction. |
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| | | | | | A Wendy’s location in California will soon join the growing list of quick service restaurants using microgrids to reduce emissions and save on energy costs. |
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| | | | | | The Clean Power Alliance, one of California’s largest Community Choice Aggregators and green energy suppliers, will partner with Haven Energy to create a virtual power plant and advance access to clean and reliable energy for disadvantaged communities. |
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| | | | | | The project should be sized to target a neighborhood of 50-200 residences and other buildings but can be larger,” reads the Public Service Commission of DC’s document. “Buildings included in the microgrid can be residential, commercial, or municipal. |
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| | | | 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 development in 2025. But they pointed to the gains... |
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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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| | | | 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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| | 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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| | | | | | Sponsored | | Attend this webinar to discover the energy procurement strategies employed by the most successful large organizations and how you can leverage them to positively impact your company’s bottom line. |
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