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HOMER Grid Updates: How to Check the Version History
Did you know you can always find a description of the latest updates to our software by checking the version history page? We respond to customer feedback with […]
HOMER Grid: Now Comes with Two Free Hours of Premium Support
We now have a new offer included with a purchase of HOMER Grid. Commercial HOMER Grid licenses (i.e. not academic or student licenses) purchased after September 4, 2018 […]
Learn HOMER Pro and HOMER Grid and Get NABCEP Continuing Education Credits
Join us on October 10th at the HOMER International Microgrid Conference in San Diego for a full day of intensive training on the design and implementation of complex […]
California Approves 100% Renewable Electricity Goal for 2045
After years of bitter battles, the California Assembly approved SB 100 on Wednesday, August 29th, requiring that the state’s electricity be generated by 60% renewable power by the […]
New Business Models for Microgrids: Energy-as-a-Services (EaaS) Leads in Popularity
Building a microgrid can be an expensive proposition. But, the growth of microgrid projects is surging worldwide, and that’s partly because new business models are lowering, if not […]
Three Phases in Designing Successful Microgrid Projects
One of the things we strive to do with each release of our HOMER software products is to help our users make better decisions about how to design […]
HOMER Pro® Eases the Design Challenges of a Private Microgrid in the Catskills
Nestled in the Catskills there’s a new microgrid that defies the usual value propositions. It’s an outlier of a project because microgrids are normally built for different reasons […]
HOMER Energy Releases New Software Features that Make it Easier to Understand How to Use Renewable Energy to Reduce Energy Costs
Software updates to HOMER Grid provide powerful, new features to more easily and quickly model commercial-scale solar-plus-storage and other behind-the-meter distributed energy systems. Today HOMER Energy released important […]
HOMER Grid Now Includes Custom Tariff Creator, Integration with PV Design Tools, and a Wind Module
Today HOMER Energy released important updates for our newest distributed energy design software – HOMERⓇ Grid. HOMER Grid is a powerful simulation and optimization tool that helps solar […]
Bringing A Renewable Microgrid to the Canadian Arctic Village of Old Crow
The remote Canadian village of Old Crow recently concluded a groundbreaking agreement with a local utility to sell the output of a 940 kW solar array. According to […]
Why we created HOMER Grid: Understanding the differences between HOMER Grid and HOMER Pro
Note: This article was updated in July 2018 to reflect changes in HOMER Grid 1.2. In mid-March 2018, HOMER Energy released HOMER Grid – our first new desktop […]
New Markets for Behind-the-Meter Wind? Now HOMER Grid Can Help Users Decide
The economics of distributed wind projects, ones that use small and medium-size turbines, could be looking promising as interest builds in the development of hybrid distributed energy development. […]
HOMER Grid 1.2 New Features Demonstration – 6/26/18
Join HOMER Energy engineers as they walk through HOMER Grid v1.2, and show off all of the new, powerful features: -New advanced tariff builder that makes it possible […]
HOMER Energy Conducts Training at Greenland’s National Utility
Islands have been among the earliest adopters of renewable energy and microgrid technology because of the imperative to reduce the economic impact of expensive fuel imports. But, we […]
HOMER Software Bibliography
This list is always a work in progress. To have your manuscript cited here, please send the complete reference to us via email. We also appreciate PDF copies whenever […]
Bringing Energy Access to Micronesia
HOMER Energy conducts training missions all over the world to share knowledge about distributed energy in general and teach people how to use the HOMER software. In one project in Micronesia, the challenge was to figure out how to bring electricity to 40,000 people across hundreds of islands in the
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After the Storm: Off-Grid Solar+Storage Brings Hope to Puerto Rico
In late September of 2017, Hurricane Maria pummeled the island of Puerto Rico, ripping out its aging, indebted and poorly maintained electric grid by the roots. Island residents […]
HOMER Pro Joins a Team in the 2018 U.S. Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition
A team of students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is used HOMER® Pro to create economic models for their entry in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) “Collegiate Wind Competition.” The project was to create wind-powered microgrids to power EV charging stations across the windiest part of the Great Plains:
Energy Storage Systems: Disrupting the Power Sector, Again
With a rapid decline of costs outpacing expectations, energy storage is following a positive trajectory similar to that of solar PV a decade ago. In fact in the […]
Exploring HOMER Grid: Modeling Examples in The United States and Australia – 4/5/18
Learn about our latest tool, HOMER Grid – a robust, powerful tool for optimizing the value of behind-the-meter, distributed generation, where demand charges and energy arbitrage are driving […]
“Steel City:” Using HOMER Pro to Help Create a Resilient Energy Future for Pittsburgh
Microgrid technology is set to play a big role in the continued revitalization of the rust-belt city of Pittsburgh, according to Dr. Gregory Reed, professor of engineering at […]
Microgrid Value Propositions Part Two: Microgrids in Industrialized Countries
A month ago we posted an update to an article on the value of microgrids that was originally written six years ago. The update focused on the importance […]
HOMER Energy Releases New Software to Manage the Complexity of Designing Behind-the-Meter Systems and Reduce Demand Charges
HOMER Energy today announced its newest software product, HOMER Grid, a robust and powerful tool for optimizing the value of behind-the-meter, distributed generation systems while reducing demand charges. This important new product from HOMER Energy is a response to the rapidly growing solar-plus-storage market, and the rise in demand charges across the U.S. and other countries.
HOMER Grid: Because Solar Plus Storage is Only the Beginning of the Energy Future
Today HOMER Energy announces a new model – HOMER Grid, a robust, powerful tool for optimizing the value of behind-the-meter, distributed generation systems, especially when demand charges and energy arbitrage matter. HOMER Grid is not a replacement for our flagship product, HOMER Pro, but an alternative to it. In this article I explain some of the important differences between the two products, and why we created HOMER Grid.
Assessing Demand Charge Savings from Solar+Storage and Other Hybrid Systems
Commercial customers pay for electricity in different ways than residential consumers of energy. As we explained in an earlier blog post, large users pay for the fact that […]
Hybrid Microgrids Bring Solar to Niger
One of Africa’s poorest countries is embarking on a major project that will use solar to reduce the costs and pollution burden of diesel-powered village microgrids. The project […]
Microgrid Value Propositions Revisited: Part One
Six years ago we wrote a blog post about Microgrid Value Propositions. A lot has happened in six years, including multiple extreme weather events that severely challenged the […]
Designing Microgrids for the Solomon Islands
There is a lot of interest in the idea of 100% renewable energy both from a political and technical perspective. To understand some of the issues surrounding this […]
HOMER Pro 3.11 + HelioScope Integration Webinar – 2/1/18
Learn how HOMER Pro, the leading software for modeling hybrid renewable energy systems, is partnering with HelioScope to allow solar designers to easily model the addition of battery […]