Solar Microgrids

This section includes white papers on Solar Microgrids
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Fort Wayne, Indiana (Source: Nicholas J Klein/Shutterstock.com)

Historic Indiana City Turns On New Water and Sewer Utility Microgrid

Nov. 1, 2024
The hybrid microgrid will leverage floating solar panels, a battery energy storage system and biogas and natural gas connections to provide roughly 40% of the power needed to ...

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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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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...
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Deborah Westlight, operations manager with the Oregon Clean Power Cooperative, raises her arms in celebration of the solar panel portion of the project.

Oregon Agrivoltaics-Based Microgrid Tackles Crop Warming from Climate Change – and May Improve Taste of Lettuce

Oct. 28, 2024
As climate change increases summer temperatures in Oregon, one farm struggling with decreased crop production is deploying a microgrid with agrivoltaics to provide solar, shade...
Schneider Electric
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.
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Green Grocer: California Supermarket to Deploy On-Site Renewable Energy Microgrid

Oct. 10, 2024
Vallarta Supermarkets has contracted with GreenStruxure to develop renewable energy microgrids at its Oxnard and other California locations. The Oxnard microgrid will produce ...
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Wisconsin Hospital Breaks Ground on 100% Renewable Energy Microgrid

Oct. 2, 2024
The microgrid will be connected to a new battery energy storage system, the hospital’s existing rooftop solar array and biogas energy generated by the nearby La Crosse County ...
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Product rendering of Powin's Centipede Stack800 battery energy storage system (Source: Powin)

BHE Renewables Selects Powin as Long-Duration Energy Storage Provider for its Ravenswood Microgrid

Sept. 12, 2024
The solar and energy storage microgrid will leverage lithium iron phosphate batteries, which are capable of discharging energy continuously for 10 to 12 hours.
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Unlikely Partners on the Dance Floor: Stakeholders Uniting to Support the EV Transition with Microgrids

Aug. 23, 2024
In this QuickChat video, Aron Bowman, president of ELM MicroGrid and ELM Solar, explains why he’s bullish on the state of the EV transition.