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Schneider Electric to Design and Build Advanced Microgrid in Milford, Connecticut
Schneider Electric recently (1/24) announced an agreement to design and build a microgrid within critical buildings in the City of Milford, Connecticut. The technology will offer power resiliency during inclement weather, at a time when the US Department of Energy’s 2017 Grid Reliability Study includes microgrids as a way to provide necessary resilience. Schneider Electric’s new ...
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Xendee Adds Inflation Reduction Act Incentives Tools to Microgrid Design Platform
Xendee, a provider of renewable project and microgrid design and decision support software, has launched a series of new features that integrate the latest tax incentives from the new Inflation Reduction Act directly into its platform. This is designed to allow engineers to integrate the benefits of these policies with their projects and see the effects on overall costs or determine the ...
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US-Israel Companies Partner to Take Renewable Energy Microgrids Into the AI and Machine Learning Age
Introspective Systems, LLC announced recently (8/8) that it has finalized its contract with the Binational Research and Development Foundation (BIRD US-Israel Foundation) to begin a commercialization project with its Israel-based partner, Brightmerge. The companies will leverage their areas of expertise to create an end to end AI-based data solution for Microgrid design, development, and ...
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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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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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The U.S. Department of Defense Taps Xendee to Optimize Microgrid Design for Military Installations
Due to the growing threat of blackouts, the U.S. Department of Defense, through its Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), has enlisted Xendee, a provider of microgrid decision support software, to help significantly cut energy system engineering costs. With the DoD identifying microgrids as a critical technology for increased security, energy efficiency, and resilience ...
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XENDEE and Idaho National Laboratory Partner to Develop Zero-Carbon Microgrids in Puerto Rico
XENDEE Corporation, a company focused on microgrid design and decision support software, and Idaho National Laboratory's (INL) Net-Zero Microgrid Program will support the Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de la Montaña to develop and implement an environmentally and financially sustainable zero-carbon microgrid in Puerto Rico. "Increasingly dangerous climate events have been devastating to Puerto Rico's ...
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XENDEE Partners with Idaho National Laboratory for Net-Zero Carbon Microgrid Program
XENDEE Corporation and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have partnered to build a design platform for Net-Zero Carbon Microgrids. The platform will consider a wide variety of distributed energy and sustainable technologies, including solar photovoltaic, battery storage, electric vehicle fast-charging stations, hydrokinetic power, hydro-storage, traditional combined heat and power systems, and ...
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CPUC Approves New PG&E Microgrid Program for Most Vulnerable Communities
The California Public Utilities Commission recently (March 19) took action necessary for Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to implement a new microgrid program to support local governments and tribes to provide resiliency in the event of utility outages. A June 2020 CPUC Decision required large electric investor-owned utilities to accelerate deployment of microgrids and resiliency ...
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Nexus targets process heat, micro-grids with land-saving design
Nexus Renewables plans to launch a pre-commercial prototype with mirror surface 4,046m2 at the end of May, targeting the industrial and localized micro-grid markets, Friesth said. There are a number of potentially significant CSP markets, such as India, Israel or Italy, where space is at a premium. Plans seen by CSP Today reveal a unique linear parabolic reflector design which Friesth says ...
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5th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum to Focus on EMEA/Latin America/Asia Pacific
The 5th edition of the Microgrid Global Innovation Forum, September 4-6, 2017 in Barcelona, will focus on microgrid advances, case studies and applications in EMEA, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The emphasis is on optimizing the business model for a range of microgrid deployments, maximizing the use of renewable and distributed energy resources, and sharing real-world case studies in both ...
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Black & Veatch-designed Microgrid Actively Powering Shell Technology Center in Houston
A Black & Veatch-designed microgrid at Shell’s Technology Center in Houston, Texas, is actively powering part of the campus while serving as a critical research tool for Shell International Exploration & Production Company, Inc.’s work to explore the next generation of clean power and distributed energy technologies.Microgrids are integrated systems of multiple power generation sources ...
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Burns & McDonnell Completes Design of Innovative Microgrid Project for U.S. Military
Burns & McDonnell has received approval from Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Hawaii to begin construction of the Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security (SPIDERS) Phase I project at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam (JBPHH). Burns & McDonnell was awarded the SPIDERS Phase I design-build project on December 2, 2011. Since the contract award, ...
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Faith Technologies and Schneider Electric To Build State-Of-The-Art Microgrid
Faith Technologies, a leading electrical planning, engineering, design, and installation expert, in partnership with Schneider Electric, has designed and built a state-of-the-art, clean energy microgrid at the Gordon Bubolz Nature Preserve in Appleton, Wisconsin.The advanced microgrid uses a 200 kW solar photovoltaic energy (solar panels); a 30 kW hydrogen fuel cell; a 100 kW lithium-ion battery ...
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REC Solar and DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express Announce Completion of Solar Microgrid Project
DHX - Dependable Hawaiian Express and REC Solar, an unregulated affiliate of Duke Energy, recently announced the completion of a solar microgrid solution designed to bring reliability, savings, zero-emissions generation and more to the leading Hawaiian-based freight company. The vision for renewable generation combined with energy storage as a backup power supply came long before DHX opened its ...
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10th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum in London to Examine Latest Advances in EMEA, APAC and LATAM
The market for microgrids is projected to reach $35 billion by 2025 -- with a stunning 20.7% CAGR. The reasons for this projected growth include the falling costs of solar energy, advances in energy storage, the drive to mitigate climate change, the need to enhance grid resiliency, and the cost savings of minimizing fossil fuels in remote generation systems. In addition, microgrids will play a ...
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Duke Energy Places Advanced Microgrid into Service in Hot Springs, NC
Duke Energy has placed into service one of the nation’s most advanced green microgrids in the Madison County town of Hot Springs. The Hot Springs microgrid consists of a 2-megawatt (AC) solar facility and a 4.4-megawatt lithium-based battery storage facility. The microgrid is designed to provide a safe, cost-effective and reliable grid solution for serving the Hot Springs area, and also provide ...
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Rolls-Royce Expands Position in the Microgrid Market
Rolls-Royce is investing in Berlin-based start-up company Qinous GmbH, a global provider of innovative energy storage and control systems, and adding turnkey microgrids to the portfolio. “As a strategic investor, the aim is to set up a partnership with Qinous for the development of innovative energy storage solutions and together offer cleaner solutions designed to meet tomorrow’s ...
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PG&E Lays Groundwork for Permanent, Multi-Customer Microgrids
Today, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) launched its Community Microgrid Enablement Program (CMEP) to help communities identify, design and build permanent, multi-customer microgrids serving critical facilities and vulnerable customer groups. Through this new program approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), PG&E will provide technical and financial support ...
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Energy Leaders Collaborate to Power All Electric, Solar-and Battery-Powered Microgrid Communities
SunPower Corp., University of California, Irvine (UCI), Schneider Electric, and Southern California Edison (SCE) announced their collaboration this week with KB Home, as the strategy, research, technology, and energy providers for the homebuilder’s newly launched Energy-Smart Connected Communities in Menifee, California. More than 200 state-of-the-art, all electric homes will be solar ...
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