| | | | | | | | Today's News from the Editors of Microgrid Knowledge | | |
| | | By Lisa Cohn Some Colorado communities are grappling with climate-change induced heat, wildfires, drought and blizzards, along with long feeder lines. To address the outages that these challenges create, the state has released a microgrid roadmap that identifies vulnerable communities and ways to overcome obstacles... |
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| | | | Sponsored | | Join energy leaders and innovators at Microgrid Knowledge 2025 in Dallas, April 15-17. Explore the latest trends, technologies, and strategies shaping the future of resilient and sustainable power. From expert insights to hands-on case studies, this is the must-attend event for professionals driving the energy transition. Don’t miss your chance to connect and lead the charge. |
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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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| | | | | | 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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| | | | | | 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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| | | | Here’s one way local energy would work: A school with building rooftops covered with solar could produce excess electricity to serve the campus and its neighbors. Batteries that combine with solar to create a microgrid would capture the solar and use it in the late afternoon and overnight. |
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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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| | | | The company’s minigrids now serve more than 1.5 million people and over 30,000 small businesses in 400 communities across Nigeria and India. |
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| | | | Small hydroelectric microgrids in Puerto Rico and solar-powered microgrids for a California tribal community were among the 10 clean energy projects that advanced to the final phase of the competition. Winners will receive $500,000 each. |
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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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| | 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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