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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 order, worth $13.5 million, is funded by a grant through the California Energy Commission's Long-Duration Energy Storage Program as part of a project being carried out by Indian Energy, a 100 percent Native American-owned business, to create a first-of-its-kind resilient clean energy microgrid. ...
Catalyst Power Holdings LLC, an integrated provider of cleaner energy solutions for the commercial and industrial sector, is launching diversified power services in Connecticut. Catalyst Power provides a range of cleaner energy solutions to Connecticut businesses, including custom-priced energy service, Connected Microgrids, and other onsite solar projects that allow companies to reduce energy ...
The quarterly series provides insights on state regulatory and legislative discussions and actions on grid modernization, utility business model and rate reforms, energy storage, microgrids, and demand response. The report finds that all 50 states and the District of Columbia took actions related to grid modernization during 2021 (see figure below), with the ...
As the U.S. emerges from the pandemic, focus is on decarbonizing the energy mix while improving grid resiliency, reliability and flexibility. Microgrids will play a key role in these efforts. Federal tax credits for solar PV systems (including energy storage) have been reinstated, and FERC Order 2222 is preparing the way for aggregated distributed energy ...
The quarterly series provides insights on state regulatory and legislative discussions and actions on grid modernization, utility business model and rate reforms, energy storage, microgrids, and demand response. The report finds that 47 states, as well as the District of Columbia, took actions related to grid modernization during Q2 2021 (see figure below), with ...
"We know how much our customers need reliable energy. Community microgrids will play a key role in PG&E's ongoing efforts to harden our electrical system and enhance local grid resilience for customers throughout our service area in Northern and Central California. ...
Under existing CPUC rules and state law, customers throughout California can already build and operate microgrids. This week's Decision advances the CPUC's continuing goal of further facilitating the commercialization of microgrids, which includes implementing standards, protocols, guidelines, methods, rates, and tariffs to reduce barriers for ...
This strategic partnership will support the growth of SolMicroGrid's business, which offers innovative microgrid solutions through an Energy-as-a-Service business model. SolMicroGrid is a developer and operator of microgrid systems for commercial and industrial customers throughout North America. SolMicroGrid's senior management team, led by ...
Utilities are looking to the future: both investor-owned and municipal utilities are exploring the role that energy storage and microgrid projects will play in their portfolios. Key deployments and initiatives are beginning to help map a course forward for utilities across North America. ...
Yet, if aggregated and optimized with smart controls, they can offer grid services under new business model platforms such as microgrids and VPPs. ...
The quarterly series provides insights on state regulatory and legislative discussions and actions on grid modernization, utility business model and rate reforms, energy storage, microgrids, and demand response. The report finds that 44 states and the District of Columbia took actions related to grid modernization during 2018 (see figure below), with the greatest ...
Orange & Rockland (O&R) wants to use alternative and innovative technologies that would operate as a microgrid to maintain electric service reliability for its customers in Washingtonville, and parts of Blooming Grove and Salisbury Mills. O&R is asking prospective business partners to provide proposals on how they can maintain electric service reliability for customers in the area ...
The top reasons given for this were network capital investment levels falling below depreciation (cited by 16 percent of respondents), increasing targets for service reliability and performance regulation (13 percent), and energy demand erosion (13 percent). ...
The top reasons given for this were network capital investment levels falling below depreciation (cited by 16 percent of respondents), increasing targets for service reliability and performance regulation (13 percent), and energy demand erosion (13 percent). ...
Schneider Electric recently (3/14) announced a project with REC Solar to build an advanced microgrid at its Foxboro, Massachusetts facility. The microgrid will be funded by Schneider Electric’s innovative Microgrid-as-a-Service (MaaS) business model – it is the third MaaS project with Duke Energy Renewables and REC Solar – and will offer greater power resilience to help the ...
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. ...
Like | Tweet There's a growing spotlight on the fragility of America's aging electrical infrastructure, while both energy production and electricity generation from distributed energy resources (DER) continue to increase. New grid technologies, such as microgrids, can now provide innovative hardware and software that solves for DER integration and provide the benefits of secure, reliable, ...
Like | Tweet The global microgrid market size was valued at USD 3.76 billion in 2016, and is expected to reach USD 17.51 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 17.0%.* The drivers behind this include the need for greater grid reliability and resiliency, the integration and control of distributed energy resources into the grid, as well as the desire by commercial and industrial end users to ...
The City of Hartford, Bloom Energy, and Constellation, a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation, recently announced the completion of a fuel cell microgrid that will generate clean energy, manage electricity costs and supply emergency power for public buildings and businesses in the city's Parkville neighborhood. "I'm proud that Hartford is home to one of Connecticut's first fully operational ...