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Pittsburgh Steps Up City-Scale Microgrid Initiative
Pittsburgh, which hopes to eventually develop a grid of microgrids, continues to evolve as a center of energy innovation with about 20 distributed energy, nanogrid and microgrid projects now emerging...
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Microgrids for Social Justice, Cities, Schools and Even Furniture
Microgrids for social justice in Massachusetts The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has awarded two $75,000 grants for social justice microgrids planned in Boston’s Chinatown and Chelsea...
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Shouldn’t We Have More DC Microgrids?
Direct current (DC) microgrids offer a lot of advantages in today’s digitally networked, electrified world. Yet they face challenges gaining acceptance on the US grid where alternating current (AC)...
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Microgrids for the Greater Good: Serving People by Guaranteeing Energy
From electrifying remote African villages to bringing clean power to the US grid, microgrids serve the greater good, as discussed here by Michael Kilpatrick, vice president of power systems at S&C...
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Software ‘Brings Everything Together’ for New Microgrid Clusters
What are the software challenges microgrid clusters face? Michael Carlson, president of Siemens Digital Grid NA, answers that question at Microgrid 2018 in an interview with Elisa Wood, Microgrid...
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Hawaii Looks to Microgrid Development After Lava Mangles Utility Equipment
Following the volcanic eruptions on Hawaii’s Big Island — where poles and equipment have been damaged or destroyed by lava — both Hawaii Electric Light (HELCO) and the state are moving toward boosting...
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The 21st Century Power Grid: Not Your Parents’ Power Grid
DERMs and VPPs — you hear the terms often now. They stand for distributed energy resource management systems and virtual power plants, and they are remaking the electric grid as we know it. Learn more...
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Virtual Power Plants: Coming Soon to a Grid Near You
Virtual power plants (VPPs) are growing in popularity and helping shape the grid of the future, as explained in the second installment of a new Microgrid Knowledge Special Report series about VPPs and...
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New Microgrid for South Australia, Storage for San Diego, and Off-Grid...
South Australia microgrid to provide secure power for transmission network Australia continues to be a mecca for microgrid projects with another announced today, this one for Electranet, South...
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What are Distributed Energy Management Systems (aka DERMS)?
Last week, the new Microgrid Knowledge Special Report series that explores the benefits of distributed energy management systems (DERMS) and virtual power plants (VPPs) covered how VPPs can replace...
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How DERMS and Smart Inverters Safely Bring Distributed Resources to the Grid
Distributed energy management systems (DERMS) and smart inverters can together help efficiently and safely bring distributed energy onto the grid, as described in the fourth part of a Microgrid...
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New York Paves the Way to Understanding Microgrid Utility Requirements
What lessons can we take from New York when it comes to navigating local microgrid utility requirements? According to a new Veolia white paper: The answer is quite a few. Download the full report. In...
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Smoothing the Path for DER Orchestration: New Rules for a New World
In the previous installment of the Microgrid Knowledge Special Report series focused on distributed energy management systems (DERMS) and virtual power plants (VPPs), we covered how DERMS and smart...
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Blazing the Path from VPPs to Holistic Grid Control with DERMS
This is the final entry in a Microgrid Knowledge Special Report series focused on distributed energy management systems (DERMS) and virtual power plants (VPPs). The sixth installment provides an...
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Hawaii Public Utilities Commission Considers Microgrid Tariff
After Aloha state Gov. David Ige reiterated his support for microgrids and signed legislation calling for a microgrid services tariff last week, Hawaii regulators were quick to open up a proceeding to...
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Construction Begins on 7.4-MW Fuel Cell Park at Naval Submarine Base New London
Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative (CMEEC), the US Navy and FuelCell Energy are setting the keystone of a microgrid that will enhance energy services at Naval Submarine Base New London...
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Washington State Utility Readies with a Microgrid Should Transmission Lines Fail
In a crisis, it’s not just utility customers that use microgrids to get back to business. Utilities, themselves, can too. Washington State’s Snohomish County offers the latest example of a utility...
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Portland Plans Emergency Microgrid Statues in Parks. Will Use Pedal-Power
The city of Portland and three partners have launched a pilot to offer emergency microgrid support in a park statue that will charge cell phones and store emergency supplies. PrepHub prototype at MIT....
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Duke Energy Proposes New Microgrid and $500M Energy Storage Investment
Duke Energy has proposed a microgrid to serve the western North Carolina town of Hot Springs as part of a larger plan that includes a $500 million investment in energy storage over 15 years. Hot...
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A Surprise to Analysts: Less CHP in Microgrids, More Solar
Combined heat and power (CHP) provides year-round baseload energy in microgrids — something renewable resources don’t do. Yet solar PV now overshadows CHP in planned microgrid projects, according to a...
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