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    News and feature articles on microgrids in Europe including RFP's, policies and players impacting the region.
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    Europa Lag: Why Microgrid Adoption is Slower Across the Pond

    June 25, 2024
    U.S. microgrid installed capacity has sailed past 10 GW and hundreds of projects, but Europe is not moving forward nearly as fast despite its growing adoption of renewable and...

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    Revolutionizing Defense: The Crucial Role of Microgrids and Schneider Electric in Department of Defense Energy Resiliency

    Sept. 13, 2024
    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...
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    Doosan Škoda Power Commissions 270-MW Steam Turbine to Power Wood Pulp Mill in Finland

    Feb. 20, 2024
    The massive on-site turbine could produce an additional 2 terawatthours (TWh, or 2,000 GWh) of renewable electricity, powered by biofuels, according to Doosan Škoda Power. The...
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    The Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales. (Source: The Royal Mint)

    UK Mint Launches New Multiresource Microgrid Energy Center

    July 21, 2023
    The multitechnology microgrid includes solar, wind, combined heat and power, and dual chemistry battery storage.
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    Rooftop based PV-solar power. Source: spa-solceller-lomma

    Microgrid in Sweden to Send Power to its Neighbors, EVs and the Spot Market

    June 23, 2023
    The microgrid startup has big plans for Scandinavia and beyond.
    Eric Youngren, NUE vice president of product development, changes a unit to the Ukrainian voltage and frequency. Courtesy of Footprint Project

    These 2 organizations acted quickly to provide solar microgrids to Ukraine

    April 15, 2022
    “We have to do something,” Will Heegaard, operations manager for Footprint Project — a nonprofit that provides solar microgrids and other emergency power systems to disaster areas...
    PowerNest installation. Photo courtesy of IBIS

    Why aren’t there more small wind turbines on buildings?

    March 9, 2022
    Solar panels and batteries are common elements of microgrids. Wind turbines are more of a rarity, especially on city buildings. IBIS Power hopes to change that with its PowerNest...
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    Austrian Alps. By Anna Om/Shutterstock.com

    Alpine projects help climb the microgrid mountain

    March 9, 2022
    Communities in the European Alpines pursue democratic energy through collective action — microgrids — with the help of the ALPGRIDS project.
    Water Lilies, the first Microgrid Foundry community project. Video Courtesy of BEC

    Microgrids for new eco-friendly housing developments in the UK

    Feb. 14, 2022
    A not-for-profit organization has launched a share offer campaign to develop new clean energy microgrid projects across the UK.