Forecasting Optimizes Solar-diesel Hybrid Microgrids

An improved forecasting of weather changes can reduce the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) for solar-diesel hybrid microgrids by optimizing the investment costs for storage ...

New Report Shows How Legacy Market Design Stifles Community Microgrid Potential

The Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR) has released a report, Mighty Microgrids, with recommendations for unlocking the benefits community microgrids. Though the report ...

Human, Social, And Cultural Practices For Rural Electrification Using Microgrids

Human, Social, And Cultural Practices For Rural Electrification Using Microgrids Microgrid System Laboratory December 2014 Principal author and researcher: Christian E. Casillas, ...

Microgrids in Africa: Perspectives From WorldWatch Institute and Navigant Research

This article was written by D.A. Barber for AFKInsider. It is being reposted with permission. With Africa’s push for rural electrification, microgrids — especially those that ...

Global Microgrid Market to Grow 21%, Exceed $35B by 2020

Analysts at Transparency Market Research forecast the global microgrid market will expand at a 20.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2014 and 2020. Pegging the ...

20x Growth Forecast in Remote Microgrid and Nanogrid Market

Microgrids are on the verge of an expansion that extends their use to a broader range of uses and end users worldwide. At this early stage of market evolution microgrid ...

Massachusetts Microgrid Report

Navigant Works with 12 Microgrid Project Sponsors to Define the Market, Develop Strategies

Rapidly declining costs and performance improvements, along with supportive energy and power market policy and regulatory changes, continues to fuel strong growth in distributed ...

Community Microgrid Models Emerge

Affordable energy storage and an uptick in personal wealth are creating new business opportunities for community microgrid developers, according to a new report by Bloomberg New ...