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Category: Community Microgrids
USAID, RBL Bank Partner to Expand Off-Grid, Rooftop Solar in India
The $75 million USAID loan guarantee will significantly enhance RBL's ability to extend loans to Indian SMBs installing off-grid and rooftop solar energy systems in poorly served ...
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Postcard From the Future? Ta’u Island Ditches Diesel With Tesla-SolarCity Microgrid
In 'Before The Flood,' Elon Musk tells Leonardo DiCaprio that just 100 Gigafactories would be enough to move the entire world to sustainable energy. While critics scoffed, Tesla ...
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ABB, Indian Institute of Technology Microgrid Partnership To Boost Climate-Smart Rural Electrification Drive
ABB and IIT Madras aim to develop a ¨microgrid of microgrids¨ platform that if successful should make a substantial contribution to realization of India's ambitious renewable ...
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LO3 Energy Takes Blockchain Microgrid Energy Trading Platform Down Under
Brooklyn, NY-based LO3 Energy is leveraging initial demo installations in the U.S. in a bid to expand globally. Management on Nov. 3 announced it has established itself in Byron ...
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Solar Microgrid Helps Save Lives, Brighten Prospects in Rural Myanmar
A community solar-energy storage is delivering emissions-free electricity throughout a village in Myanmar's central Dry Zone, enabling health clinic staff to store anti-venom and ...
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Haiti Microgrid Developer Wakes Up To Daunting New Role In Wake Of Hurricane Matthew
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, Sigora was on hand to support emergency relief efforts. Now the clean energy microutility is raising $96k and leveraging its ...
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Vulcan Impact Investing Makes its Mark with Rural Kenya Solar Mini-grids
Vulcan's impact investing team lay out the challenges they have faced, and the solutions they've come up with, in the two years it has owned and operated 10 off-grid, ...
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Blockchain and the Rise of Peer-to-Peer Power Markets
Mirror images of one another, blockchain-based P2P transaction networks and distributed energy resource management platforms seem to go hand-in-glove. It may be years before the ...
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PwC Identifies 3 Key Strategic Elements for Microgrid Market Success
Microgrid market participants will be well served if they incorporate a ¨total solution¨ approach, along with two other key elements, in their strategic business plans, according ...
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New Community Microgrid Projects Crop Up in Seattle and Santa Monica
Community microgrids are cropping up in a growing number of states as government, civic and business leaders look to shore up energy security, grid reliability and resilience, ...
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- The Water Energy Barrel SaunaThe traditional Finnish sauna is a water/energy phenomenon. By using wood (traditionally) or rocks to heat volcanic rocks, water can be splashed on the rocks to create steam. This steam is naturally circulated around the sauna, especially if you’re fortunate enough to be in a barrel sauna. The sauna is the perfect representation of heat/energy […]
- Solar Startup Harnesses the Power of the Sun and the Mighty ZambesiAfrican renewable energy startup Muhanya Solar Ltd. is building a solar-powered microgrid that will deliver affordable, reliable, emissions-free electricity to 60 families in Sinda, a village in eastern Zambia. In southern Zambia, SuperRich Energies Ltd is harnessing solar energy and the power of the mighty Zambesi River to build the first of a planned 12 […]
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