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Microgrid Controller Competition Announced By NREL
The Microgrid Controller Innovation Challenge is one of four initiatives launched under the U.S. Department of Energy-Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's new $2.5 ...
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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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Watch This Fishing Village In Haiti Get Transformed by A Solar Microgrid
Sigora Solar recently completed a solar powered microgrid in Mole Saint Nicolas, Haiti - a remote fishing village seven hours by truck from Port Au Prince. Sigora is a for-profit ...
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War of Currents Unsettled as DC Microgrid, EV, DER, and Efficient Loads Favor DC
New DC Microgrid Opportunities Are Opening Up, Causing Many To Rethink The Entire Electric Grid. Universities, companies, and governments have been lining up for years to ...
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Bipartisan Microgrid Support Helps Push Energy Bill Forward
At 85-12, the senate has passed the first energy bill since 2007 with overwhelming bi-partisan support. It's a historic $37.5 billion energy and water bill that could shape the ...
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Connecting the Dots Along the Emerging Energy Internet of Things
One 12 recently funded ARPA-E microgrid projects is taking place in Lubbock, Texas, where DNV GL, Group NIRE and GELI will develop and operate an ¨Internet of Energy¨ (IoEn) ...
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SDG&E to Add as Much as 140MW of Preferred Energy Resources
California's leading renewable energy utility aims to tap into new energy storage, renewable energy, distributed generation, energy efficiency and demand response (DR) systems ...
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Forging Win-Win Solutions in the Evolving DER Integration Landscape
By Peter Asmus The stars appear to have aligned for distributed energy resources (DER) to play an increasingly important role in providing energy services to consumers. Some see ...
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Energy Storage Advances to Fuel Microgrids, Virtual Power Plants
Energy storage will increasingly be a viable option to conventional utility grid and substation upgrades as load profiles and population change, fueling growth in virtual power ...
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Panasonic Unveils Green Tower Distributed Energy-as-a-Service Solution
Panasonic's Green Tower is the latest entry into what's becoming a crowded, highly competitive cleantech market segment – Cloud-based ICT platforms that make it seem deceptively ...
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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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