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Global Microgrid Markets To Reach $35 billion By 2022: New Report

Global Microgrid Markets To Reach $35 billion By 2022: New Report

Research & Markets suggest global microgrid markets will have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12% between 2016-2022.  The Research and Markets timeline for microgrid ...

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Calculating Energy Storage Cost The Right Way

Calculating Energy Storage Cost The Right Way

Calculating Energy Storage Cost can be intimidating, but it's really not all that complicated.  Comparing apples to apples (kWhs to kWhs) is the most important thing to look ...

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South Carolina Marine Corps Microgrid To Be Built By Ameresco

South Carolina Marine Corps Microgrid To Be Built By Ameresco

Ameresco, Inc., a leading energy efficiency and energy infrastructure company, announced it has been awarded the contract to build a 10 MW campus microgrid of new onsite ...

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The First Global Energy Startup Accelerator, Free Electrons, Gets Buy-in From Major Utilities

The First Global Energy Startup Accelerator, Free Electrons, Gets Buy-in From Major Utilities

Free Electrons, the world's first global energy accelerator connects startups and utilities to reach breakthroughs faster.  The consortium will recruit energy startups to drive ...

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ENEL Acquires Energy Storage Software and Microgrid Project Developer Demand Energy

ENEL Acquires Energy Storage Software and Microgrid Project Developer Demand Energy

Enel Green Power has acquired a 100 percent stake in Demand Energy Networks, Inc. (“Demand Energy”), a Washington-based provider of intelligent software and energy storage ...

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Jacobs Engineering Group Selected for NJ Transit Microgrid Design and General Engineering

Jacobs Engineering Group Selected for NJ Transit Microgrid Design and General Engineering

NJ Transit is constructing the first of its kind microgrid that takes advantage of transit infrastructure to harden critical infrastructure.  The Project is a result of a ...

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Off-grid: When hybrid plus storage makes sense

Off-grid: When hybrid plus storage makes sense

Reducing the reliance on costly diesel-based power generation is high on the list of priorities for off-grid operators around the world. PV-hybrid systems alone can only go so far ...

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War of Currents Unsettled as Distributed Energy, Efficient Loads, and Microgrids Go DC

War of Currents Unsettled as Distributed Energy, Efficient Loads, and Microgrids Go DC

Universities, companies, and governments have been lining up for years to demonstrate the potential of DC microgrids, and the next generation of DC microgrid architectures are ...

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Off-Grid Solar Hits the Ground Running in Rural Nicaragua, Panama

Off-Grid Solar Hits the Ground Running in Rural Nicaragua, Panama

A chance meeting the clean energy and water poverty he witnessed during his travels across Nicaragua and Panama led Marc Henrich to create Solubrite. Now the solar-social ...

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Renewable Energy Integration with Mini/Microgrid: A novel use of the hybrid energy storage system for primary frequency control in a microgrid

Renewable Energy Integration with Mini/Microgrid: A novel use of the hybrid energy storage system for primary frequency control in a microgrid

High penetration of renewable energy causes fluctuations of power flow and results in system frequency fluctuation, which significantly affects the power system operation. The ...

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Pay-As-You-Go Solar and Microgrids Considered New Class of Infrastructure Investment

Pay-As-You-Go Solar and Microgrids Considered New Class of Infrastructure Investment

Small enough to be deemed insignificant by conventional power market and investment standards, off-grid solar-storage mini- and microgrids now account for a significant and still ...

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Biggest Drivers Of US Electric Grid Transformation According to DOE

Biggest Drivers Of US Electric Grid Transformation According to DOE

According to the 2nd Quadrennial Energy Review, here the key trends shaping the electricity sector today.  It also reads as a list of opportunities for microgrids. Increasing ...

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Energy Storage Blockchain ‘Like Early Days of the Internet”

Energy Storage Blockchain ‘Like Early Days of the Internet”

“When the internet was first introduced, it was hard to conceive of the drastic impact it would have on the world. We’ve got all the parts to do some really interesting things ...

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The Emerging Internet of Energy Heats Up Underpinned by Energy Storage

The Emerging Internet of Energy Heats Up Underpinned by Energy Storage

Aiming to unify distributed renewable energy, energy storage and smart grid systems – not to mention numerous and varied connected devices and equipment in homes, businesses and ...

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May 15-17, 2017 – Washington DC – Microgrid Global Innovation forum

May 15-17, 2017 – Washington DC – Microgrid Global Innovation forum

REGISTER HERE Optimizing microgrids for enhanced grid resiliency, DER integration, and greater cost efficiencies The microgrid market opportunity in the U.S. is projected to ...

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Energy Storage and Autonomous Electric Vehicles: The Real Monopoly Utility Killer?

Energy Storage and Autonomous Electric Vehicles: The Real Monopoly Utility Killer?

The bulk power system we’ve relied on for the last century is remarkably inefficient.  Due to waste heat and transmission losses, less than 30% of energy inputs in thermal power ...

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IPERC To Design and Install Cybersecure Microgrid By 2018 At Fort Belvoir, VA

IPERC To Design and Install Cybersecure Microgrid By 2018 At Fort Belvoir, VA

“Our goal is to design and install a world-class cybersecure microgrid at Fort Belvoir and obtain an ATO, thereby demonstrating the value-add of the GridMaster control system. We ...

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An Off-Grid Vision for 2025 With Solar, Storage, Efficiency, and Autonomous EVs

An Off-Grid Vision for 2025 With Solar, Storage, Efficiency, and Autonomous EVs

The year is 2025 and like most of your neighbors, your house is not connected to the electric grid.  During the summer, it is almost completely powered by the solar panels on your ...

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Liberating Microgrids: How Customers and Solutions Providers Can Grow DER Markets

Liberating Microgrids: How Customers and Solutions Providers Can Grow DER Markets

The Failure Rate for Proposed Microgrid Projects is Too High.  Why is This? By Sunil Cherian and Peter Asmus Too often, these networks of distributed energy resources (DER) are ...

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