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Working With Nature to Reach 100% Renewable Energy with Elemental Water Makers
EDITOR’S NOTE Let’s admit it, fossil fuels have made us lazy. What we used to accomplish with biomimicry and working with nature we now just burn more fossil fuels. Today we depend on coal and gas...
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How The Developing World Is Reinventing The Grid
A Fresh Start The way we interact with energy is fundamentally changing. The core business model of utilities is clashing with global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, adopt new...
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The 10 Potential Value Streams of Microgrids
Keeping the lights on during a power outage is usually the selling point of a microgrid. But a new report by Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) breaks down the 13 value streams that battery storage can...
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A Glimpse Into Future Microgrid Communities at Solar Decathlon
The Solar Decathlon, organized by the US Department of Energy is showcasing a new generation of homes designed to minimize energy consumption and maximize renewable as well as passive energy potential....
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The New Economics of Battery Storage
In ¨The Economics of Battery Energy Storage,¨ RMI lays out 13 distinct services advanced battery storage systems can deliver today. More to the point, the report authors conclude that these systems are...
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Community Microgrids are the bridge to a modern grid
The Clean Coalition shows how adopting community microgrids can provide a pathway to a clean, resilient, and less expensive energy system. The electric grid was not designed to utilize distributed...
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Distributed energy resources can already balance themselves on a local microgrid
At ESNA 2015, UCSD’s Byron Washom described his ‘hallucinogenic dreams,’ where solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, and other distributed energy resources (DER) orchestrate a clean, balanced,...
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Hawaiian Electric Launches $2.1MM Distributed Energy Storage Program
Integrating electricity produced by solar and wind energy systems on to power grids has quickly become a major cause for concern among U.S. utilities, grid operators and regulators, particularly...
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Duke Energy Gets Bullish on ¨Green¨ Microgrids
The nation’s power utilities are facing pressures of unprecedented breadth and depth – from reducing greenhouse gas emissions and pollution to keeping up with new, cleaner and more efficient power...
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Will Desalination Undermine California’s Renewable Energy Targets Or Be A...
Large, inflexible desalination plants could jeopardize California’s renewable energy targets and increase the cost of both water and energy. Better designed desalination plants can be a grid resource...
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NY Prize Feasibility Studies Under Way in 10 Communities
From the effects of a warming climate to aging grid infrastructure and overstretched public finances, a variety of factors are putting pressure on and raising the risks and costs of producing,...
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Internet of Things Fuels VC Smart Grid, Energy Storage Investment
Venture capital (VC) investment groups put $81 million of capital across 12 transactions to work in up-and-coming smart grid systems vendors in 3Q, substantially less than 2Q’s $104 million and 18...
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AES Adding Battery Storage Capacity to Philippine Power Grids
The Philippines is poised for the installation of its first utility-scale battery-based energy storage system. AES Philippines on November 5 announced it will build a 10MW battery-based energy storage...
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Mexico Announces First Electricity Market Auction Guidelines
Mexico’s Secretary of Energy Pedro Joaquín Coldwell this morning announced the guidelines that will govern the country’s first electricity market auction. The auction will open the door for independent...
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Chicago’s ‘Jake and Elwood’ Utility-Scale Energy Storage Centers Near Completion
Invoking memories of, as well as memorializing Chicago blues, John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd’s performances in the still-popular musical comedy ¨The Blues Brothers,¨ Renewable Energy Systems (RES)...
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GE Grid Solutions Instantly A Transmission and Distribution Powerhouse,...
GE Grid Solutions Approximately 40% Of The Global Power Base Now Comes From GE Marking the completion of its acquisition of France’s Alstom – the largest industrial acquisition in a history that...
View ArticleNetherlands Sustainable Energy Producer is Building The Industry’s First...
Scaling up from community and campus microgrids, leading edge power producers and utilities are helping advance the clean energy transition by making use of pioneering distributed power and energy...
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Maryland Community Solar Moves Forward In Wake of Nationwide White House...
Representatives from solar energy organizations gathered at the White House for the National Community Solar Summit November 17. At the end of the day, White House officials announced that 68 cities,...
View ArticleBrazil’s Microgrid Potential
Brazil, the home of samba, soccer, and beaches is on the verge of being a clean energy power. Microgrids can play a part in enhancing this role, helping to flourish renewable energy in Latin America’s...
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Transmission Charges Penalize Local Clean Power in California
TAC Transmission Access Charges (TAC) are fees designed to pay for the state’s transmission system, operations and maintenance, amortization of capital, and return-on-equity. TAC add about $0.03 per...
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