Isle au Haut, Maine, received $211,000 from the US Department of Agriculture to help pay for a 311-kW solar power array that will be part of an island microgrid. The island's 140 electricity customers receive power from a 7-mile undersea cable that was installed in the early 1980s and has outlived its expected life. In a sign of the … [Read more...]
US Utility Invests in Kilowatt Labs to Boost Service with Microgrids
Until December 2017, Kilowatt Labs was still a startup company, developing supercapacitor-based energy storage and an energy server that’s designed to manage distributed energy. But after the company delivered its first product in January, Kilowatt Labs attracted more business than expected. Most recently, it garnered a $2.5 million investment … [Read more...]
The Microgrid Way: Going Green with Solar & Supercapacitor-based Energy Storage
If utilities offered their customers solar energy and took advantage of supercapacitor-based energy storage, we could significantly cut greenhouse-gas emissions. That’s the word from Omer Ghani, CEO and co-founder, Kilowatt Labs, which produces supercapacitor-based energy storage called Sirius Energy Storage and the Centauri Energy Server, … [Read more...]