The global microgrid market is rapidly gaining prominence as supportive government policies in various countries encourage the setting up of renewable sources of energy such as wind and […]
Lili Francklyn
Report Examines Nanogrid Market Potential
Editor’s Note: The following is reprinted with permission from Navigant Research’s recent report, “Nanogrids.”The basic concept behind the nanogrid is simple: small is beautiful. Nanogrids are modular building blocks […]
Electrovaya Partners with Canadian Solar on Microgrid Energy Storage Project
Electrovaya announced recently that it will partner with Canadian Solar on a microgrid project, providing a 200 kWh energy storage system which will feature Electrovaya’s Lithium Ion SuperPolymer […]
A123 Energy Solutions Adds to Grid Storage Solution Deployments in China
A123 Energy Solutions recently announced the commissioning of a 500-kilowatt Grid Storage Solution (GSS) for Dongfang Electric Machinery Co., Ltd, one of the largest manufacturers of power generating equipment […]
Toshiba Delivers Lithium-ion Battery Energy Storage Systems to Remote Islands
Toshiba Corporation recently announced that it has delivered battery energy storage systems integrating the company’s lithium-ion secondary battery to Kyushu Electric Power Co. for a demonstration project of […]
Microgrids To Have Major Utility Industry Impact Within 10 Years
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), HOMER Energyand CohnReznick Think Energy (CRTE) recently released a new report detailing the potential for appreciable customer defection from the electric grid in major markets by 2025, without […]
EaglePicher Receives Contract from Erigo Technologies for DOD Microgrid Energy Storage System
EaglePicher Technologies announced recently that it has been awarded a contract from Erigo Technologies of Enfield, New Hampshire. Erigo’s contract, funded under the Department of Defense Rapid Innovation Fund […]
Microgrid Resources Coalition Launched by Microgrid Businesses and Hosts
Leading microgrid businesses and hosts recently announced the launch of a new consortium that will support microgrid deployment and the enhanced resilience, cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency they offer. […]
Future of Energy Storage Systems for Microgrids
The microgrid market is expected to expand rapidly over the next 10 years, bringing with it increased demand for energy storage associated with these systems. Energy storage systems […]
For Energy Security, Bring a Gun to the Knife Fight
From “For Energy Security, Bring a Gun to the Knife Fight,” published April 4, 2014 in the Daily Camera: “Communities thinking for themselves may feel the need for […]
Energy Department Announces $7 Million in Funding for Microgrid Design
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced up to $7 million to advance the design of microgrid technologies, intended to help communities become more prepared for power outages […]
How Microgrid Business Model Innovation Will Support New Development Opportunities
Self-contained microgrids are emerging as a viable power option for users from datacenters to telecom stations to single family homes. While customer-owned microgrids are standard today, a new […]
HOMER Energy Helps Craft 75% Renewable Deal for Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island
HOMER Energy played a central role in a deal announced recently between Virgin Limited Edition and NRG Energy to build a mostly-renewable energy system on Necker Island, a […]
SDSC and Leidos to Help Develop Cybersecurity Reference Architecture for Microgrids
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, is collaborating with Leidos (formerly Science Applications International Corporation) to develop a reference system architecture […]
Partners Announced for U.S. Dept of Defense ESTCP Microgrid Project
Power Analytics, which was awarded a Department of Defense’s Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) contract to demonstrate the management and control of a secure cluster of microgrids […]
EarthSpark Wins Grant to Expand Microgrid in Les Anglais, Haiti
USAID and its partners recently announced EarthSpark International as a winner of its Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development” program. More than 475 organizations from 80 […]
New York Earmarks $40 Million for Ten Microgrid Projects
Vice President Joe Biden recently joined New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo for the unveiling of “Reimagining New York for a New Reality,” a $17 billion strategy that […]
DONG Energy and Schneider Electric To Focus on Optimizing Island Microgrid Systems
DONG Energy and Schneider Electric recently entered an agreement to cooperate on a technological and commercial partnership aimed at enabling electric network operators of remote or isolated island […]
Experts Forecast Robust Microgrid Development Through 2020
The market for remote and grid-tied microgrids is expected to nearly quadruple by 2020 as prices for generation and energy storage technologies continue to decline, according to a […]
Business Model Innovation In Electricity Services: A Comparison of Developing Models
Lux Research’s Grid Storage team recently profiled Mera Gao Power and OMC Power, who are both developing micro power plants or microgrids in India. Although the two companies […]
ViZn Energy Sets Sights on Microgrid Market
Editor’s Note: The microgrid market is poised to experience significant growth over the next few years, provided one of the key enablers can be realized: cost-effective energy storage. […]
Initial Phase of Powerstream’s Microgrid Now Operational
PowerStream recently unveiled a microgrid demonstration project at the utility’s head office. PowerStream is a community-owned energy company that provides power and related services to approximately 360,000 customers residing or […]
Innovation Center to Mentor HOMER Energy
From the Boulder County Business Report: “HOMER Energy LLC has become a client of the Innovation Center of the Rockies to receive guidance as the clean-tech company enters […]
North America Still the World’s Leading Market for Microgrids
Microgrids are a global phenomenon. Yet, a clear definition of what is and what is not a microgrid is still open to debate. The only government agency to […]
IPERC Selected for DoD Microgrid at Camp Smith, Hawaii
IPERC, a provider of intelligent microgrid control solutions, was selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to design and commission a 5.3MW energy microgrid at Camp Smith, HI. […]
Partner Engineering and Science Inc. Develops Energy Microgrid for City of Bridgeport
Partner Engineering and Science, Inc., an environmental and engineering consulting firm headquartered in Torrance, Calif., has successfully participated in the development of a microgrid project with the City of […]
Concentrating Photovoltaics: Soitec Supplies Solar CPV System for Microgrid Project in Madagascar
Fondation Énergies pour le Monde (Paris) has completed installation of a 2.28 kW Soitec concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system, which combined with pre-existing wind turbines powers a microgrid for a small community […]
Aquion Energy and Siemens To Develop Microgrid and Grid Energy Storage Systems
Aquion Energy, a developer and manufacturer of Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI) batteries and energy storage systems, recently announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Siemes under […]
$1.2M Microgrid to Power Town Facilities in Connecticut
The microgrid would provide electrical power when service is disrupted to police and fire headquarters, and to a nearby homeless shelter. The system would function through a combination […]
Status of Remote Microgrids Market Worldwide
While the world has changed during the past century, one could argue that the same kind of remote microgrids first developed by Edison now represent one of the […]