Remote Microgrids

Videos on remote and island microgrid solutions

San Miguel County Courthouse. Image credit Jerreye and Royklotz, courtesy Wikimedia Commons

Colorado Roadmap Identifies Outage-Prone Communities and Microgrid Deployment Challenges

Jan. 13, 2025

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...

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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...

Growing the Minigrid Footprint: Husk Doubles its Installed Fleet in Africa and Asia

Jan. 13, 2025

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.

2 Microgrid Projects Advance to Establish Phase of DOE’s SOLVE IT Prize Competition

Jan. 10, 2025

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...

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Why Minigrids are Thriving in Africa

Dec. 19, 2024

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...

The mining community of Broken Hill, located in Far West New South Wales, Australia. (Source: Taras Vyshnya/Shutterstock.com)

Remote Australia Mining Town One Step Closer to New Energy Storage Center and Minigrid

Nov. 22, 2024

Hydrostor has signed a 65-year Crown Lands lease that brings the Silver City Energy Storage Center one step closer to fruition. The project includes advanced compressed air long...

A solar installation in Hughes, Alaska. (Image credit Eddie Dellamary)

The Microgrid Compass is Pointing North: Five Takeaways from This Year’s Rural Energy Conference for Alaska

Nov. 5, 2024

Given the enormous stakes and one-time funding opportunities currently on the table for rural energy microgrid projects, this could be a turning point moment in Alaska’s history...

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Solar and Storage Minigrid Commissioned on Tonga, Micronesia Seeks Minigrid Proposals

Oct. 29, 2024

A $53.2 million minigrid was commissioned on Niuafo’ou, Tonga’s northernmost island, to provide clean, reliable power 24 hours a day. In Micronesia, Yap island seeks bids on a...

Solar panels at the Nyagoto birthing center in Kenya. Schneider Electric will partner with United Solar Initiative to build similar microgrids at two birthing clinics in Guatemala. (Source: Schneider Electric)

Microgrids to Provide Life-Saving Benefits to Guatemala Maternal Healthcare Clinics

Oct. 25, 2024

Schneider Electric and United Solar Initiative announced plans to build microgrids at two rural birthing clinics in underserved, largely indigenous communities in Guatemala.