In an interview at Microgrid 2019, two Advisian executives — Tristan Jackson, director, smart and distributed energy and Andrea Ruotolo, senior manager, smart and distributed energy — discuss the company’s latest advanced energy software tool. Advisian is the technical consulting branch of Worley — a 55,000 person engineering services firm … [Read more...]
The Rise of Microgrids and DERs: Out of Competition Came Innovation
January 24, 2019 By Leave a Comment
What was the impetus for the rise of microgrids and distributed energy resources? What role did competition play? A new special report from Microgrid Knowledge and NRG Energy explores the industry's evolution. Here's a look inside the history of electric competition. Today's growth in distributed energy and microgrids goes back to the … [Read more...]
The Challenge of Quantifying the Benefits of Distributed Energy Resources
January 17, 2019 By 17 Comments
A new special report from Microgrid Knowledge and NRG Energy explores trends in local energy and distributed energy resources. This chapter looks at the evolution of incentives and today's challenge placing a monetary value on such microgrid benefits as reliability and resiliency. Government incentives have heavily shaped growth of … [Read more...]
DER Technology Comes of Age: Smart and Sophisticated
January 8, 2019 By 3 Comments
A new special report from Microgrid Knowledge and NRG Energy explores trends in local energy and distributed energy resources (DERs). This excerpt takes a look at how market factors have led to the maturity of DER technology. Distributed energy used to be simple. Put a generator in a building basement, or solar panels on a roof, and the job … [Read more...]
What the Rise of Local Energy Means for Businesses, Institutions and Communities
January 2, 2019 By 2 Comments
A new special report from Microgrid Knowledge and NRG Energy explores the rise of local energy and what it means for businesses, institutions and communities. This excerpt introduces the benefits of microgrids and distributed energy. Distributed energy resources (DERs) represent a departure from the conventional electric grid because of … [Read more...]
Community Microgrids: Central Pillar of the Local Energy Revolution
October 16, 2017 By 1 Comment
Community microgrids are popping up in cities and towns all over the U.S. as the local energy revolution takes hold. Recent storms and power outages are helping drive this trend, as well. A guide from Microgrid Knowledge, explores the role of the community microgrid and its growing popularity as many city leaders look for more clean, … [Read more...]
Local Energy Will Be the Big Play for 2015
January 8, 2015 By 1 Comment
Microgrids, community solar, rooftop solar, LEDs, smart thermostats, electric vehicles are capturing the collective imagination. Why? They are all local energy. They give communities, households and businesses the ability to manipulate their energy in ways they cannot under the old central grid model. We can save it with LEDs, green it with … [Read more...]
Five Most Read Microgrid Stories on MicrogridKnowledge.com
November 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment
MicrogridKnowledge.com is now three months old. So we wanted to take this opportunity to thank our readers and sponsors who have helped make our launch so successful. We see the fast-growing microgrid industry as one of the greatest game changers -- indeed society changers -- in energy today. We're dedicated to telling the industry's story, … [Read more...]
Think Microgrid: The Local Energy Revolution
October 29, 2014 By 7 Comments
This week two years ago, Superstorm Sandy put the 'city that never sleeps at night' into a near coma, disrupting electric power in some parts of New York for two weeks. It was a painful lesson about the vulnerability of our electric grid, not just in New York, but throughout the Northeast. And it was a wake-up call for government leaders about the … [Read more...]
