microgrid News
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US Installed Microgrid Capacity to Grow 115% and Reach 4.3GW Over the Next 5 Years
A shift away from single-entity owned and operated projects is greatly improving microgrid project economics in the U.S. microgrid market. In its newly released report, U.S. Microgrids 2016: Market Drivers, Analysis and Forecast, GTM Research provides an analysis of customer drivers and emerging ownership models, and detailed segmentations of the current market to arrive at future market ...
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Microgrid Knowledge - Educating government decision makers: Ameresco’s Michael Bakas appointed to Massachusetts AG transition team
Bakas will be part of the Energy and Environment Bureau Team for Attorney General-elect Andrea Campbell, who ran on a climate and energy equity platform. Ask microgrid companies what’s holding up their progress, and they inevitably place government policy and regulatory guidance high on the list. Much of today’s electric power regulation was put in place before microgrids were ...
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Microgrid Knowledge - How microgrids can boost economic development for a community and its residents
Jim Fonger, vice president of asset and advanced technology development for Ameresco, outlines how microgrids create local jobs and bolster local economies. When we talk about a community microgrid, we typically mean a larger scale project that benefits an entire community, not just a single customer or building. A community microgrid could be owned and operated by the community itself, by ...
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Microgrid Knowledge - Ameresco Executive Discusses Inflation, The Military and The Future of Microgrids
Britta MacIntosh, senior vice president of Western Region and London Operations for Ameresco, sat down with Microgrid Knowledge during Microgrid 2022 to discuss how global trends like inflation are impacting microgrids. Now is the perfect time for the world to take advantage of the many benefits offered by microgrids, according to Britta MacIntosh, senior vice president of Western Region and ...
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Report: Utility Microgrid Strategies Leveraging DER for Grid Benefits
A new report from Navigant Research examines how utilities that move now can shape future microgrid markets to create new revenue opportunities. The electric utility industry is at a crossroads. Deployments of distributed energy resources (DER) will exceed centralized generation in 2018, and the gap between the two categories will only grow wider (and in favor of DER) over time. According to the ...
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Global Market for Microgrids Expected to Reach $30.9 Billion in 2027
A new report from Navigant Research examines the status and potential future growth of microgrid segments and business models, providing global market forecasts for capacity and implementation spending, broken out by segment and region, through 2027. Over the last decade, Navigant Research has tracked the global microgrid market as the number of vendors offering products and services increased. ...
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Guidehouse: Revenue from microgrid investments in APAC will likely reach $7.7 billion by 2031
Decreasing renewable energy prices, technological innovations and increased adoption of energy storage are just some of the factors that will continue to drive the deployment of energy access microgrid projects in emerging markets, according to a new report from Guidehouse. ...
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SOU is also awaiting confirmation on an additional $2 million federal grant that will further fund its campuswide solar buildout initiative.
Rod Walton, EnergyTech senior editor, describes an ERCOT pilot project with implications for microgrids. FERC 2222 is coming to the Lone Star State. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the system operator which manages the state’s grid, has authorized a pilot project to evaluate the participation of aggregated distributed energy resources (DERs) in the ERCOT wholesale ...
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New Report Explores Benefits of Clean Energy Microgrids for Consideration by State Energy Offices
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the National Association of State Energy Officials released a report, Clean Energy Microgrids: Considerations for State Energy Offices and Public Utility Commissions to Increase Resilience, Reduce Emissions, and Improve Affordability, that discusses the potential benefits of clean energy microgrids for states. Clean energy ...
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Microgrid Market to Reach $14.92 Billion by 2020: SBI Bulletin
Industrial and energy market research publisher SBI has released a research study on microgrids, projecting the market will reach $14.92 billion by 2020. The study, SBI Bulletin: Microgrids 2006-2020, also projects the market value will experience a hefty 102.4% increase from 2010 to 2015, and from 2015 to 2020, another 78% increase in its market value. This reflects a hike in microgrid ...
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NERC Publishes 2021 Annual Report
The past year at NERC was defined by transformation as highlighted in NERC's 2021 Annual Report. Both the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) Enterprise and the grid are undergoing changes. In 2021, the ERO Enterprise faced an ongoing pandemic, extreme weather events and security risks against the backdrop of an evolving grid. The report uses NERC' s 2021 focus areas to highlight the largest ...
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NARUC-NASEO Joint Report Provides Microgrid Framework for PUC and State Energy Offices
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the National Association of State Energy Officials released a report, State Microgrid Policy, Programmatic, and Regulatory Framework, that is a resource for public utility commissions and State Energy Offices as they develop policies, regulations and programs to support microgrids. Understanding essential information surrounding ...
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ComEd’s Green Energy Innovation Is Partnering With Historic Bronzeville
Bronzeville, the South Side home of Chicago’s Black Renaissance and the birthplace of Black History Month, hopes to launch its next Golden Age with support from a smart microgrid being installed by utility ComEd. The microgrid will tap green energy to help power the community. Once completed in 2019, the grid will have a load, or active consumption capacity of 7 megawatts, installed over ...
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Beyond the Grid: How Microgrids Can Help Sub-Saharan Africa Achieve Universal Energy Access
Worldwide, an estimated 1.1 billion people still lack access to modern electricity services—and roughly 600 million of them live in Sub-Saharan Africa.Furthermore, achieving universal energy access by 2030 is expected to require an investment of roughly $45 billion every year. To help encourage private investment in this monumental task, NREL has supported the Power Africa Beyond the Grid Program ...
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Maryland offers another $2 million in microgrid and resiliency grants as it enters program`s 4th year
Maryland continues to step up its support for microgrids, now accepting applications for $2.7 million in microgrid grant funding through its 2023 Resilient Maryland Program. The announcement marks the latest in a series of moves since 2020 by the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) to support microgrids, most recently awarding nearly $1.2 million in two rounds of resilience funding for 2022. ...
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CPUC Charts Course for Microgrid Incentive Program To Increase Community Resilience
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in ongoing efforts to build community resilience against power outages and in the face of climate change, this week (April 6) approved rules for the new Microgrid Incentive Program (MIP) for Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E). The Decision approves the ...
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Microgrid Knowledge - Major North American Food Producer to Exit the California Grid With A Microgrid
More of our food is about to come from microgrid power. California’s Taylor Farms, a major North American fresh food producer, is building a microgrid in partnership with Bloom Energy, Ameresco and Concept Clean Energy. The microgrid will be designed to power an entire 450,000 square facility, so that it eventually can operate with no tie to the grid. It will use 6 MW of Bloom fuel ...
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ComEd Approved to Build One of First Microgrid Clusters in the Nation
The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) on February 28 approved ComEd's plan to construct one of the first utility-scale microgrid clusters in the nation in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. The project, which has received more than $5 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), will enable the study of how microgrids support the integration of clean ...
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Utility/DOE Data Indicates Sophisticated Hackers Have Compromised US Electric Control Centers
Either the utility industry’s key data on grid reliability can’t be trusted or the grid is MUCH more insecure, and possibly compromised, than the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) or the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) have seemed to acknowledge, according to Control Systems Cybersecurity Expert, Joseph M. Weiss. This concern ...
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Oregon DOE grant fully funds Ashland community resilience microgrid
The Oregon Department of Energy (DOE) will fully fund a microgrid project to support critical infrastructure in the city of Ashland. The $940,000 community resilience project will be implemented by Stracker Solar, an Ashland-based solar company. Allen Gilstrap, CEO of Stracker Solar, said that the project will set Ashland up as a leader in solar technology and energy ...
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