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New Orleans Microgrids to Enhance Disaster Resiliency, Water Resources

New Orleans Microgrids to Enhance Disaster Resiliency, Water Resources

Winner of a $141 million HUD National Disaster Resilience Competition grant, New Orleans aims to build two microgrids to enhance water resource management and quality of life, as ...

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Port au Prince’s First Solar-Storage Project Will Provide Light and WiFi Around The Clock

Port au Prince’s First Solar-Storage Project Will Provide Light and WiFi Around The Clock

The Champs de Mars public square and recreational park in the Haitian capital Port au Prince will be alight at night and powered by a solar PV-energy storage system. The first PV ...

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Johnson Controls-Tyco Merger to Create One of World’s Largest Battery Storage Companies

Johnson Controls-Tyco Merger to Create One of World’s Largest Battery Storage Companies

The Johnson Controls -Tyco merger will create one of the world's largest battery storage companies and boost JCI's presence in the nascent but rapidly evolving microgrid and ...

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Caterpillar Takes Equity Stake In Africa Microgrid Company Powerhive

Caterpillar Takes Equity Stake In Africa Microgrid Company Powerhive

Part of a $20 million round of Series A VC funding, Caterpillar Ventures is taking an equity stake in Powerhive, a pioneering developer and vendor of smart microgrids that network ...

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Solar Microgrids Could Yield Substantial Savings at City-wide Scale

Solar Microgrids Could Yield Substantial Savings at City-wide Scale

Researchers from MIT, Italian and Saudi universities modeled installation and use of 20 microgrids with residential solar penetration of 0% and 20% in MIT's hometown of Cambridge, ...

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Battery Storage Network to Power, Reduce Costs of SEPTA Rail Services

Battery Storage Network to Power, Reduce Costs of SEPTA Rail Services

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is installing an 8.75-MW lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery storage network to reduce operating costs, reduce energy ...

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DOE SHINES Target of $0.14/kWh for Solar-Storage Means Grid Defection

DOE SHINES Target of $0.14/kWh for Solar-Storage Means Grid Defection

The DOE and SEIA have set their targets on $.14 / kWh cost for solar plus energy storage.  The aim of the program is making renewables cost-competitive on the nations electric ...

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ComEd Charts Course to Clean Energy Future with Chicago Solar Microgrid

ComEd Charts Course to Clean Energy Future with Chicago Solar Microgrid

Commonwealth Edison will use a $4 million grant from the new DOE SunShot Initiative SHINES (Sustainable and Holistic Integration of Energy Storage and Solar PV) program in ...

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Austin Readies Launch of 2 SHINES Solar-Storage Pilot Projects

Austin Readies Launch of 2 SHINES Solar-Storage Pilot Projects

Austin Energy's SHINES pilot projects are to pave the way toward a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of $0.14/kWh for solar PV systems that employ advanced Li-ion battery-based ...

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Energy Efficiency Financing More than Doubles in 2015

Energy Efficiency Financing More than Doubles in 2015

Corporate funding in the energy efficiency sector more than doubled to nearly $1.2 billion in 2015, with debt and public market financing accounting for nearly 60% of total ...

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