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Renewables Become Leader in Grid Resilience: Decentralized Approach to Disaster Recovery

June 5, 2022 admin Aurora, clean power, demand response, grid, microgrids, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 05:00:10 +0000

Grid-Forming Inverter Demonstration at NREL Shows Decentralized Approach to Disaster Recovery Following an outage, it could be far quicker to restore electricity with energy resources that are close to home rather than miles of transmission line away. In fact, many outages might be avoided altogether by configuring local resources into rugged microgrids. The National Renewable […]

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A Perfect Storm Of Dangerous Climate Events In Puerto Rico Powers Need For Zero-Carbon Microgrids

May 18, 2022 admin clean power, climate change, community solar, grid, grid resilience, microgrids, Puerto Rico, Solar energy, solar panels, xendee

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 14:00:36 +0000

This article is supported by XENDEE.

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In Rural Nigeria: Small Electric Vehicles Powered by Microgrids

April 22, 2022 admin africa, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, factor[e], grid, microgrids, NIGERIA, rmi, shell foundation, Solar energy

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 14:18:24 +0000

Report: In rural Nigerian communities, small electric vehicles powered by cost the same as fossil fuels and expand access to electricity RMI, Factor[e] Ventures and the UK-charity Shell Foundation show scaling electric mobility with a growing minigrid industry is profitable for both minigrid and electric vehicle operators and improves community access to transportation Abuja, Nigeria […]

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Footprint Project & New Use Energy Provide Ukraine With Solar Microgrids

April 19, 2022 admin clean power, grid, mac6, microgrids, Moldova, new use energy, paul shmotolokha, Solar energy, solar power plants, the footprint project, Ukraine, will heegaard

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 01:49:02 +0000

The Footprint Project and New Use Energy have teamed up to quickly provide Ukraine with solar microgrids. You may remember my interview with Footprint Project CEO Will Heegaard during the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. After my power came back on, I was able to get back online and write again. Will told me that Footprint […]

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More Proof That Solar Panels Work In Extreme Cold

April 19, 2022 admin alaska, alaska native renewable industries, alaska regional collaboration for technology innovation and commercialization, alaska village electric cooperative, blue planet energy, clean power, Energy Storage, grid, launch alaska, microgrids, office of naval research, shunkgnak, Solar energy, solar panels, US Navy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:00:02 +0000

The US Navy has a hand in a small array of solar panels that could have an outsized influence on energy resilience throughout Alaska and the surrounding regions.

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Betting A Billion Dollars On Low-Carbon Grid Transformation Tech

April 18, 2022 admin Bernie Sanders, bill nussey, carbon emissions, China, clean power, climate change, community solar, geothermal energy, green economy, green jobs, grid, grid storage, hydroelectric, investment, Joe Biden, Manufacturing, microgrids, nuclear energy, offshore wind energy, offshore wind farms, onshore wind farms, pumped hydro, rooftop solar, Smart Grid, Solar energy, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:05:18 +0000

Virtually all of those technologies are mature and robust today. We don’t need to invent a lot of new technology, we just need to deploy existing tech.

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India Investing Millions for Microgrids

February 21, 2022 admin africa, COLORADO, distributed energy, energy compact, husk power, India, microgrids, Solar

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 18:18:04 +0000

A Colorado company that serves rural communities with solar power-based microgrids announced an investment that would provide more than 100 installations across two states in India. Husk Power Systems on Feb. 17 said it had closed $4.2 million in debt financing from the India Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) to build as many as 140 […]

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NREL & Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Demonstrate Multi-Lab Capabilities in Live Demonstration

February 10, 2022 admin advanced research on integrated energy systems (aries), clean power, grid, microgrids, national renewable energy lab (nrel), research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:22:51 +0000

NREL & Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Multi-Lab Capabilities We can currently link models and simulations across the national laboratory complex, but imagine connecting these models with equipment, devices, and scientists so they can work together as if side by side instead of thousands of miles apart. In a future like this, researchers could run experiments […]

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Bill Nussey of Freeing Energy Talks About His Chart-Topping New Book on Local Energy

February 7, 2022 admin batteries, bill nussey, bipv, buildings, carbon emissions, clean power, cleantech talk, climate change, community solar, electric cars, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, Off The Grid, rooftop solar, Smart Grid, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, solar prices, tesla, thin film solar, usa, vehicle to grid

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 20:20:41 +0000

Local energy is an express lane for climate change. The world is obsessed with gigabets on offshore wind and nuclear and there’s a traffic jam of political systems. COP26 was a disappointment. People can pull into the express lane, contribute in a personal way, and get great business value as well.