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Utilities are Giving Microgrids the Jolt They Need to Get Up and Going
This is the first in a series of articles focusing on ideas that emerged from Microgrid 2019, held in San Diego May 14-16. Here we look at “The Great Debate: What’s the Utility Role in Microgrids?”...
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Eversource Takes Local Energy Concept to New Level with New Hampshire...
Eversource plans to develop an energy storage microgrid in New Hampshire that takes the local energy concept to a new level by pairing the microgrid with a bring-your-own-device program. Charlotte...
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Duke Energy and the No Controversy Microgrid: Hot Springs
Again Duke Energy has scored an easy microgrid win, this time for the Hot Springs Microgrid in Madison County, which won approval last week from the North Carolina Utilities Commission. Hot Springs,...
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Utility Microgrids: Don’t Let the Meter Get in the Way of Benefits
This is the latest in a series of articles focusing on ideas that emerged from Microgrid 2019, held in San Diego May 14-16. Here we look at how to make the most out of utility microgrids. Utility...
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Are California Utilities Heading Down the Wrong Path as Wildfire Season...
A new report warns that California may be heading down the wrong path when it comes to preparing its grid for wildfires and points to microgrids as a better solution. View from the city of Orange of...
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With California’s Wildfire Season Coming, San Diego Microgrids Face Two-Year...
As California’s wildfire season approaches, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) faces regulatory delays of up to two years for 100 MW of proposed storage-backed microgrids that aim to provide...
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PJM Begins Process to Study How Utility Connected Microgrids Fit in its Market
The PJM Interconnection has begun a process to explore the role of utility connected microgrids in the organization’s wholesale power market. By gyn9037/Shutterstock.com The process “is part of a...
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Solar Housing Linked to Bronzeville Microgrid Provides Social Justice,...
Chicago’s Bronzeville microgrid project is demonstrating the social justice benefits of decentralized energy with the completion this month of solar installations on 660 residential units in the...
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Utilities Propose Resiliency Adders that Could Benefit California Microgrids
As California braces for a hot summer and another wildfire season, the state’s two largest utilities have put forward proposals aimed at mitigating those risks, including “resiliency adders,”...
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History of Microgrids in the US: From Pearl Street to Plug-and-Play
While it may seem that microgrids are new, the history of microgrids shows they have been around in some form for years in the US — although they haven’t always been called microgrids. The first one...
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Panasonic and Indian Utility Team up to Roll Out Urban Microgrids
Panasonic and Indian electricity utility group BYPL recently installed four solar-plus-storage-based urban microgrids on rooftops at the utility’s offices in the Delhi region, piloting what development...
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Microgrid Care: The Ins and Outs for a Lasting Energy System
Your microgrid is online. You learned a lot while building it. Now there’s more to learn about its maintenance. A new handbook from S&C Electric acts as a guide to the ins and outs of microgrid...
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Tough Summer for the Power Grid. But the Microgrids are Working
Severe heat and storms across the US this summer have strained the electric grid and caused extensive power outages. But the microgrids are working. By Mihai Simonia/Shutterstock.com Consider what...
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Regulators ask Hawaiian Electric to Explain Lack of Non-Wires Alternatives in...
The Public Utilities Commission of Hawaii is pushing back against Hawaiian Electric Companies (HECO) proposed integrated grid plan (IGP) because it has not given sufficient consideration to non-wires...
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Australian Utility Replacing Overhead Network with Microgrids
RenewEconomy’s Giles Parkinson describes a plan by Horizon Power to pull down power lines and replace them with renewable stand-alone power systems (SAPS), aka microgrids. Horizon Power is to become...
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National Grid Issues RFP to acquire 10 MW of Bulk Energy Storage Distribution...
National Grid has issued an energy storage solicitation for 10 MW of bulk, front-of-the-meter storage and power marketer services that maximize the value of the storage in key locations in upstate New...
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San Jose Looks to Exit PG&E to Develop Microgrids Following California’s...
The mayor of San Jose, California wants more microgrids in his city following Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E) recent power shutoff — and he’s willing to break ties with the utility to do it. By...
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PG&E May Speed Development of 40 Microgrids Following Power Shutoff
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) may speed development of 40 microgrids to help customers maintain electricity when wildfire threats force it to deenergize portions of its grid. by...
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Cleveland Seeks Developer in Next Stage of Large Downtown Microgrid Project
Ohio’s Cuyahoga County and partners have issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) seeking a developer for what could become a $100 million microgrid district in downtown Cleveland. Downtown Cleveland...
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Microgrids as Non-Wires Alternatives
S&C Electric’s Erik Svanholm discusses the potential of microgrids as non-wires alternatives, which use distributed energy resources and microgrids to defer or replace the installation of more...
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