DOE & FEMA Release One-Year Progress Report on Joint Effort to Modernize Puerto Rico’s Grid With 100% Clean Energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:52:48 +0000

PR100 Update Provides Early Scenarios to Help Increase Renewable Energy Capabilities That Meet Electricity Demand, Improve Grid Reliability and Resilience, and Lower Energy Costs

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NeedEnergy Launches Its First Project As It Moves To Get Zimbabwe Closer To The Grid Edge

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:00:58 +0000

For the last couple of decades, Zimbabweans have been subjected to electricity rationing due to several reasons, such as frequent droughts affecting hydropower generation and regular breakdowns at the country’s aging coal power plants. This means most businesses operating in the commercial and industrial sector as well as in the mining and agricultural sectors generally […]

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Ready, Set, Go! 124 Teams To Compete in Solar Decathlon 2023 Design Challenge

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:07:30 +0000

Working to solve the climate crisis one building at a time, 124 teams from 97 collegiate institutions are participating in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® 2023 Design Challenge. As part of the Solar Decathlon 2023 Design Challenge, top collegiate students from across the globe compete to design high-performance, low-carbon buildings powered by renewable energy. Explore […]

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Microgrid Design & Cost Options

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:30:21 +0000

  Microgrids are amazing. On a microscale (my house, for instance), a microgrid is simple — solar feeds a battery which powers my house when there’s no sun. It would get challenged to do more than that. But “more than that” is what larger scale microgrids need. Control systems, multiple energy inputs, storage, distribution, control […]

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Shyft Group Shows Off Its Blue Arc Electric Last Mile Delivery Vehicle To Customers

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:00:15 +0000

Shyft Group, formerly known as Spartan Motors, has nearly five decades of experience designing and building fleet vehicles of all shapes and sizes including half of all last mile delivery vehicles. These delivery vans are what you think of when you think about a standard FedEx or UPS delivery truck. In today’s dystopian pseudo post-COVID […]

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Infraco Africa & Equatorial Power To Roll Out Access To Clean Power & Agri-Processing In The DRC & Rwanda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:00:06 +0000

Equatorial Power’s business model integrates the delivery of productive energy with water purification, agri-processing services, business incubation and e-mobility. This is in line with its vision to provide universal access to productive electricity and clean water in a truly holistic approach centered around the customer and enabled by the latest technology. Equatorial’s website says, “We […]

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Changing The Business Model Of The Utility: Winning Allies (Interview With Henk Rogers Of Blue Planet Energy)

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 18:00:37 +0000

Recently, I had the great pleasure to sit down with one of my longtime heroes, Henk Rogers, a true climate champion, to talk about solar, storage, microgrids…all the good things. Rogers made hay in the gaming world, helping bring Tetris to the world, and then turned his attention to exploring what else was happening in […]

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