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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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DOE Sunshot Takes Aim at Solar-Storage Tipping Point

DOE Sunshot Takes Aim at Solar-Storage Tipping Point

The Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) launched a joint initiative aimed at boosting ...

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Energy Storage Picks Up Slack as Solar Tax Credits And FiTs Expire In Europe

Energy Storage Picks Up Slack as Solar Tax Credits And FiTs Expire In Europe

The declining costs of battery storage technologies (Li-ion in particular) and ratcheting down of solar tax credits and feed-in tariffs (FiTs) is enhancing the financial ...

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Renewable Mini-grids Take Root in Rural India

Renewable Mini-grids Take Root in Rural India

Young and hungry for growth, energy services companies (ESCOs) in India are cottoning on to renewable energy microgrids as a means of expanding their businesses and bringing ...

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New DOE-SEIA SHINES Program to Make Solar Plus Storage Affordable

New DOE-SEIA SHINES Program to Make Solar Plus Storage Affordable

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) launched a joint initiative aimed at boosting ...

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Solar-Storage On the Rise in Europe as Solar Tax Credits And Feed-in Tariffs Fall

Solar-Storage On the Rise in Europe as Solar Tax Credits And Feed-in Tariffs Fall

The declining costs of battery storage technologies (Li-ion in particular) and ratcheting down of solar tax credits and feed-in tariffs (FiTs) is enhancing the financial ...

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USDA Awards $46MM for Rural Vermont Energy Efficiency, Renewables

USDA Awards $46MM for Rural Vermont Energy Efficiency, Renewables

Secretary Tom Vilsack on January 8 announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded $46 million to support energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and programs ...

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South Shore Long Island Town Studying Community Microgrid Feasibility

South Shore Long Island Town Studying Community Microgrid Feasibility

Known as a haven for the rich and famous, the ¨South Shore¨ Long Island town of East Hampton is evaluating the feasibility of using a microgrid to enhance efficiency, reliability ...

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Energy Storage Coming of Age In The Midwest: New MISO Rules To Boost Applications

Energy Storage Coming of Age In The Midwest: New MISO Rules To Boost Applications

Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO) is exploring ways of changing market rules to facilitate grid-integration of battery and ...

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New MISO Rules to Boost Regional Energy Storage Applications

New MISO Rules to Boost Regional Energy Storage Applications

Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO) is exploring ways of changing market rules to facilitate grid-integration of battery and ...

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Infocast Announces the 6th Annual Defense Renewables Summit Scheduled for March 2016 in Arlington, VA.

Infocast Announces the 6th Annual Defense Renewables Summit Scheduled for March 2016 in Arlington, VA.

  Los Angeles, CA. – January 13, 2016 – Infocast, a world leading business intelligence and networking events producer in renewable energy finance, investment, and ...

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