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| | | By Kathy Hitchens 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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| | | | 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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| | | | | | 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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| | | | | | 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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| | | | | | Electricity is more than a science lesson or a tool of comfort; this flow of electrons serve as a hand up to a better world for many, putting into action a “greater good” that ultimately benefits all. |
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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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| | | | 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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| | | | Ron Beck, a longtime senior director and solutions expert at AspenTech, and strategic planning director TJ Surbella will guide a discussion on the value of industrial microgrids. |
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| | | | “Utilities, regulators, policy makers and industry partners all have a role to play to adopt an innovation mindset to accelerate the deployment of virtual power plants and serve the near-term needs of American citizens,” Jigar Shah, director of the DOE’s Loan Programs Office, said during a recent webinar. |
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| | | | The Edged Atlanta campus includes a recently completed 27-MW data center within an overall 168-MW critical Information Technology site. |
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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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