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Building-Level Microgrid Pays for Itself Through Utility Incentives
GoElectric Offers a Building-Level Microgrid GoElectric’s building-level microgrid pays for itself in many instances, thanks to utility incentives for demand response programs. It’s a microgrid at the...
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Two Microgrid Leaders Preview the Road Ahead, Ruts and All
Credit: Böhringer Friedrich Poised for rapid growth, the microgrid industry looks a lot like solar and independent power in earlier days. Key players are moving into place to capture market share;...
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Microgrids are Eligible to Bid in SCE’s 100-MW ‘Preferred Resources’...
Southern California Edison building in Los Angeles Microgrids are eligible to bid into a 100-MW solicitation for new preferred resources that was issued this week by Southern California Edison, said a...
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Microgrid Jr Comes of Age: The Rise of the Solar Plus Storage Nanogrid
The microgrid may be getting all of the attention, but its smaller knockoff — the nanogrid — is starting to capture the spotlight too. What is a nanogrid? Like the microgrid, it is a technology in...
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GE Forms New Company in $1B Play for Disruptive Energy Market
GE is making a $1 billion play to offer microgrids, energy efficiency, energy storage, electric vehicles and other disruptive energy technologies to large energy users through a new company called...
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The Humble Ways Princeton University’s Microgrid is Green
Princeton University’s Energy Plant Princeton University’s microgrid is green–but not in ways that are obvious. Yes, the university has solar–a field of 16,000 solar panels that produce 4.5 MW or 6...
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Utilities and Microgrids: It’s Complicated
Not long ago when Schneider Electric’s Mark Feasel would make an appointment to talk to a utility about microgrids, he’d usually get shuffled off to the ‘smart guy’. The smart guy is interesting, but...
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Moody’s on New York REV: Winners, Losers and What’s Next
New York utilities would not become obsolete, but may actually see their value increase under New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision, or REV, according to a report issued this week by Moody’s Investors...
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PECO Gets Okay for $50 to $100M Microgrid Pilot in Pennsylvania
Destruction from Superstorm Sandy in Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission yesterday approved a $50 to $100 million microgrid pilot program planned by PECO Energy. The microgrid pilot...
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Connecticut Microgrid Grants, Wave Energy Microgrids & More Quick Microgrid News
Fairfield this week became the first town to begin operating a microgrid through Connecticut’s pioneering microgrid grants program. The unveiling comes as the state prepares to launch its third round...
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Will Utilities Look at Solar Microgrids in the Rearview Mirror and Say “Uh Oh”
Growth in solar microgrids — and all forms of distributed solar — is accelerating. So much so that utilities better jump into the market now or risk watching it pass them by. That’s the message from a...
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Urban Microgrid Planned by Duquesne Light and the University of Pittsburgh
Credit: Doug Kerr News of yet more microgrid activity in Pennsylvania came today with the announcement of an urban microgrid planned by Duquesne Light and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). The...
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Connecticut Utility Finalizes Innovative Community Microgrid Deal
Woodbridge town hall Community microgrids are not always easy to finance. But United Illuminating (UI), FuelCell Energy and the town of Woodbridge, Connecticut are showing how some innovative thinking...
View ArticleMicrogrid Controllers and the Management of Distributed Energy Resources
This white paper from EPRI provides an indepth analysis of the relationship of microgrid controller with Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) and Utility Distributed Management...
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Oregon’s First Step Toward Utilities Acquiring Energy Storage
A new law in Oregon will allow the state to take a first step toward investor-owned utilities acquiring energy storage by 2020. House Bill 2193 requires investor-owned utilities to procure one or more...
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A Grid of Microgrids for Washington, DC?
The time has come to unleash full electric competition by creating a grid of microgrids, and the nation’s capital city is a good place to start, according to a new report. The DC Public Power (DCPP) an...
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A Utility Willing to Cannibalize Revenues for Residential Microgrids
Ribbon-cutting event for residential microgrid installation Oshawa Power & Utilities, located in Ontario, is willing to cannibalize its own revenues to stay relevant — and offer customers...
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New York Microgrid Demonstration Project Uses Low-Cost Storage
New York State Microgrid Demonstration Project A New York microgrid demonstration project will use an energy storage system from Eos Energy that the company describes as the lowest-cost battery storage...
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Future of Six Utility Microgrids Awaits Legislative Action in Illinois
Illinois airport plans 17-MW utility microgrid Illinois stands to gain six utility microgrids – including a 17-MW airport microgrid – if state lawmakers approve an energy bill backed by Commonwealth...
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Hitachi Moves into the North America Microgrid Market with 100-Year Plan
Hiroaki Nakanishi, CEO Hitachi Hitachi, one of the world’s largest companies, has entered the North America microgrid market, a move born out of a tsunami and a very, very long-term view of the...
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