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Solar Startup Harnesses the Power of the Sun and the Mighty Zambesi

Solar Startup Harnesses the Power of the Sun and the Mighty Zambesi

Construction of the first three of a planned 12 hybrid solar-hydroelectric microgrids highlights the creative, effective ways multilateral Power Africa off-grid energy program ...

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Can Blockchain Gain Traction in Power and Energy Markets?

Can Blockchain Gain Traction in Power and Energy Markets?

Touted as the next ¨transformational¨ digital information and communications technology, interest and investment in Blockchain projects and ventures is diffusing out from banking ...

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Hybrid Solar Microgrids Up and Running in Colombia’s Forbidding Darièn

Hybrid Solar Microgrids Up and Running in Colombia’s Forbidding Darièn

Installed by Cali's Tecmac Ingeniera, the five community solar-diesel microgrids have created jobs for locals and reduced pollution and energy costs, thereby improving human and ...

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Schneider Launches New EcoStruxure Energy IoT Architecture and Platform

Schneider Launches New EcoStruxure Energy IoT Architecture and Platform

Schneider is building bridges across the energy and IoT sectors with the latest iteration of its EcoStruxure architecture and platform, which offers an ¨industrial strength¨ ...

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USAID, RBL Bank Partner to Expand Off-Grid, Rooftop Solar in India

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

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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Energy Industry First: Siemens, LO3 Energy to Link Blockchain Trading, Microgrid Management Technology

Energy Industry First: Siemens, LO3 Energy to Link Blockchain Trading, Microgrid Management Technology

Brooklyn, New York's LO3 Energy is at the leading edge of a fundamental restructuring and retooling of energy production and distribution. A partnership with Siemens should give ...

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ABB, Indian Institute of Technology Microgrid Partnership To Boost Climate-Smart Rural Electrification Drive

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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Naval Multi-Physics Lab Adds Ice Energy Storage to its Renewable Microgrid

Naval Multi-Physics Lab Adds Ice Energy Storage to its Renewable Microgrid

The addition of Calmac's IceBank energy storage technology is the latest in the US Naval Postgraduate School Multi-Physics Lab's efforts to design, test and build an integrated ...

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A Solar-Storage Microgrid for Great Smoky Mountains National Park

A Solar-Storage Microgrid for Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Small in size at 10-kW of solar power and 95-kWh of zinc-iron battery energy storage, the proposed project nonetheless highlights the leading role the National Park Service and ...

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LO3 Energy Takes Blockchain Microgrid Energy Trading Platform Down Under

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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U.S. Solar Developer Renewvia Brings Electricity to Rural Areas in Kenya and Developing Countries With Pay-As-You-Go Microgrids

U.S. Solar Developer Renewvia Brings Electricity to Rural Areas in Kenya and Developing Countries With Pay-As-You-Go Microgrids

U.S.-based solar developer, Renewvia Energy, is bringing electricity to rural communities in Kenya and other developing countries through pay-as-go solar micro-grids. Most of ...

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Solar Microgrid Helps Save Lives, Brighten Prospects in Rural Myanmar

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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Microgrid Controller Competition Announced By NREL

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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Twenty Megawatt Solar-Storage Microgrid Installed at the ¨Roof of the World¨

Twenty Megawatt Solar-Storage Microgrid Installed at the ¨Roof of the World¨

Up and running in Shuanghu on the Tibetan plateau, Sungrow's PV solar-energy storage microgrid provides affordable, reliable emissions-free electricity to more than 14,000 ...

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Haiti Microgrid Developer Wakes Up To Daunting New Role In Wake Of Hurricane Matthew

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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Solar DC Microgrid Brings Electricity, Light to 800-Year Old Himalayan Village

Solar DC Microgrid Brings Electricity, Light to 800-Year Old Himalayan Village

Private and public organizations including Infosys have joined to support deployment of Global Himalayan Expeditions' solar-powered DC microgrids that are bringing electricity and ...

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Off-Grid Solar Industry Investments Rise 15-Fold, Total $276 Million in 2015

Off-Grid Solar Industry Investments Rise 15-Fold, Total $276 Million in 2015

Two market research reports from the World Bank Group's Global Lighting Program and GOGLA reveal growing use of off-grid solar energy and associated solar products and the ...

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Vulcan Impact Investing Makes its Mark with Rural Kenya Solar Mini-grids

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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Finnish Research Team Lays Out Blockchain Microgrid Platform Development Model

Finnish Research Team Lays Out Blockchain Microgrid Platform Development Model

The ETLA research team identifies and defines a target state and use case -- an adaptive distributed energy resource management platform for an apartment building owned by a ...

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