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Watch This Fishing Village In Haiti Get Transformed by A Solar Microgrid

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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These Companies Can Deploy A Mobile Microgrid in Days

These Companies Can Deploy A Mobile Microgrid in Days

An underappreciated aspect of decentralized renewable energy is the speed at which an entire mobile microgrid can be deployed and communities can be transformed by clean energy. ...

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How Multilateral Development Banks Can Embrace Decentralized Renewables

How Multilateral Development Banks Can Embrace Decentralized Renewables

The Executive Summary from 'Decentralized Renewables: The Fast Track Track To Universal Energy Access,' is republished with permission from PowerForAll.  Please visit their ...

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The Alaska Center for Microgrid Technologies Commercialization Announces Competition

The Alaska Center for Microgrid Technologies Commercialization Announces Competition

The Alaska Center for Microgrid Technologies Commercialization (ACMTC) competition is now open.  The competition is a collaborative effort involving ACEP, the Business Enterprise ...

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Clean India Microgrids To Benefit From Kerosene Subsidy Reform

Clean India Microgrids To Benefit From Kerosene Subsidy Reform

According to Debajit Palit, the microgrid sector is ready to scale up rapidly in India when improved services can be "offered at or below the monthly expenditure incurred on ...

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Scaling up Microgrids in India: Connecting the dots

Scaling up Microgrids in India: Connecting the dots

The Prime Minister of India has been saying that electricity will be brought to all villages by 2018 with power available 24x7 to all households by the year 2019. The task, ...

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Elon Musk Explains Why The Tesla-SolarCity Merger Is All About Microgrids

Elon Musk Explains Why The Tesla-SolarCity Merger Is All About Microgrids

Tesla offered to buy SolarCity last week for $2.8 billion, causing confusion and criticism from some TESLA shareholders who saw the offer as a distraction from their core ...

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El Hierro – The leading example for renewable integration on islands?

El Hierro – The leading example for renewable integration on islands?

El Hierro is a frequently cited example for renewable integration on islands, but microgrid expert Martin Baart "couldn't disagree more," here's why: There is no business case ...

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How Can Microgrids and Utilities Become Best Buds?

How Can Microgrids and Utilities Become Best Buds?

The term microgrid used to give utility executives sleepless nights and indigestion. These small, self-reliant systems would pop up, seemingly like mushrooms, within a utility’s ...

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TESLA Makes Bid To Buy SolarCity To Become Vertically Integrated Clean Energy Company

TESLA Makes Bid To Buy SolarCity To Become Vertically Integrated Clean Energy Company

TESLA made a surprise offer today to acquire SolarCity in an effort to become a vertically-integrated clean energy provider.  Noting that their mission has always been ...

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India Drafts ‘National Policy for Renewable Energy based Micro Grids and Mini Grids’

India Drafts ‘National Policy for Renewable Energy based Micro Grids and Mini Grids’

  India's challenges to reach renewable energy targets include an already unstable grid, a crippling drought (hindering thermal generation and hydropower), and reaching ...

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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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The ABC Approach to Microgrid Development in Frontier Markets

The ABC Approach to Microgrid Development in Frontier Markets

Addressing this financial issue is an emerging model for rural microgrid installation, the phased “ABC” deployment approach. This approach is based on first addressing an (A) ...

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July 12-13th | Alexandria, VA | Military Mobile Power Summit by Defense Strategies Institute

July 12-13th | Alexandria, VA | Military Mobile Power Summit by Defense Strategies Institute

The 4th Annual Military Mobile Power Summit will focus on the efforts to advance military mobile power and energy capabilities. It will discuss the methods that have been, or will ...

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June 22 to 24 June, 2016 | 2nd Off-Grid Power Forum at Intersolar Europe | Munich, Germany

June 22 to 24 June, 2016 | 2nd Off-Grid Power Forum at Intersolar Europe | Munich, Germany

OFF-GRID POWER FORUM "THE WORLD SPEAKS OFF­-GRID" Based on last year’s success and the positive feedback received from industry and governments, Intersolar Europe together with ...

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California Energy Commission Taking Steps To Commercialize Microgrids In State

California Energy Commission Taking Steps To Commercialize Microgrids In State

The California Energy Commission is hosting a workshop to begin developing a roadmap to help commercialize microgrids in California Wednesday, May 24 at 1:30 p.m. (Pacific time). ...

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June 20-23rd | St. Paul, Minnesota | IDEA’s 107th Annual Conference and Trade Show

June 20-23rd | St. Paul, Minnesota | IDEA’s 107th Annual Conference and Trade Show

The IDEA Annual Conference and Trade Show, held each year since 1909, brings together global industry experts on resilient microgrids, combined heat & power and sustainable ...

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Unusual Renewable Energy Sources May Help Reduce Carbon Emissions

Unusual Renewable Energy Sources May Help Reduce Carbon Emissions

In a 2012 study from Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, researchers from the University of Almería discovered that the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into biomass by ...

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Forecasting Optimizes Solar-diesel Hybrid Microgrids

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 ...

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