Oft-regarded as an inevitability, the concept of coupling solar with energy storage has seen an incredible amount of corporate mobilization, both in terms of partnerships and technology development. […]
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American Vanadium Announces Energy Storage and Renewable Microgrid Initiative for Remote Communities
American Vanadium announced today that it has engaged Hon. Robert Nault to develop energy storage and renewable microgrids for remote communities and First Nations in Canada and the […]
Clinton Foundation, NRG and Solar Manufacturers Partner To Power Hospital in Haiti with Solar Energy
NRG Energy recently announced the completion of the first project of a new partnership with the Clinton Foundation to continue bringing solar power to Haiti. An advanced solar […]
Call for Papers: Microgrid Deployment Forum
HOMER Energy will convene the Microgrid Deployment Forum 2013 in Cancun, Mexico, November 8 and 9 2013, in conjunction with the Solar World Congress, sponsored by the International […]
Lifestyle Change: The 3rd Rail of Clean Energy
Nobody likes being told what to do. Clean energy was probably set back a decade when Jimmy Carter told us all to wear a sweater. Now Barack Obama […]
North America Projected To Lead the Worldwide Microgrid Market With Nearly 6 Gigawatts of Total Capacity by 2020
With the launch of dozens of successful pilot programs globally, the adoption rate of microgrids is expected to accelerate over the next several years. According to a recent report from […]
Standard Solar to Install one of the Nation’s First Commercial Solar Microgrids
Standard Solar, in partnership with Solar Grid Storage, recently announced the installation of a grid-interactive energy storage system co-located with a new photovoltaic (PV) array, creating one of the nation’s first […]
New York Consortium To Explore Distributed Generation and Microgrid Projects
As part of the recommendations recently outlined by Mayor Bloomberg’s Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency (SIRR), the New York State Smart Grid Consortium (NYSSGC) will partner with […]
E.ON’s Pellworm Island Microgrid
In June, German utility E.ON is inaugurating a microgrid project on the on the North Sea island of Pellworm, approximately 100 miles northwest of Hamburg. The company views […]
HOMER Software Training Institute Held
The first HOMER Software Training Institute was held at HOMER Energy headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, on June 13 and 14, 2013. The first day focused on the basic […]
Growth Seen for Direct Current Distribution Networks
The market for direct current (DC) distribution networks is not a single, cohesive market. Rather, it encompasses several disparate opportunities — data centers, green telecommunications towers, DC subsystems […]
Portland General Electric Incorporates Microgrid into Smart Power Demo Center
Portland General Electric recently opened its new Salem Smart Power Center, an 8,000-square-foot facility in Salem, Ore., that offers a unique insider’s view of a working smart grid […]
Tokelau Renewable Energy Project
The Tokelau Renewable Energy Project, launched in 2010 and due to be completed in 2013, has seen the construction of a PV/diesel hybrid system on each atoll in […]
Wind Turbine Opens Opportunities for Off-Grid Farmers
Several farmers in North Kohala, Hawaii, are now benefitting from an innovative off-grid water-pumping system powered by a Northern Power NPS 100 wind turbine. Like many others in […]
Global Data on Energy Access, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
About 1.2 billion people — almost the population of India — don’t have access to electricity, 2.8 billion have to rely on wood or other biomass to cook […]
GridSTAR Net Zero Energy Demonstration Project Underway at The Navy Yard
A collaboration of researchers, manufacturers and economic development officials are embarking on a demonstration project for smart-grid, net zero energy buildings called the GridSTAR Center — a Smart Energy Campus […]
ETAP Breaks Ground on Corporate Campus Microgrid
ETAP, a provider of software solutions for the design, optimization, and on-line operation of mission-critical electrical power infrastructure, recently announced that the company is breaking ground on its own […]
HOMER Helps Bring Renewable Energy Home
From the Boulder County Business Report: “With more than a billion people living without electricity across the globe and little chance of getting conventional utilities soon, many innovators […]
U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin Commission Microgrid at Fort Bliss
U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin officials commissioned the first U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) grid-tied microgrid integrating both renewable resources and energy storage during a ribbon cutting ceremony […]
Microgrids for Military Bases to Surpass $377 Million in Annual Market Value by 2018
[Note: The following is the Executive Summary of a research report published in Q4 by Navigant Research, reprinted with permission.] Military Microgrids Overview The United States Department of Defense (DOD) is the […]
Toronto Hydro To Embrace Next-Generation Energy Management System
National Instruments has partnered with Prolucid LocalGrid Technologies to build a next-generation energy management system for Toronto Hydro-Electric System. Funded by nearly $2.5 million in grants from Canada’s ecoENERGY […]
The Problem with 100% Renewable Energy
The New York Times reported recently on the work of a group of Stanford researchers, who published a piece in the journal Energy Policy claiming that the main […]
ABB Selects Distributed Sun as Their Preferred U.S. Microgrid Origination, Development and Finance Platform
ABB and Distributed Sun LLC, a leading solar development and finance platform company, today announced they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding for Distributed Sun to provide a wide range […]
Green Energy Merges with Horizon Energy Group and Horizon Microgrid Solutions
Green Energy Corp has announced its merger with Horizon Energy Group and its sister company Horizon Microgrid Solutions (together Horizon). The transaction closed on March 8, 2013. The […]
How to Classify Microgrids: Setting the Stage for a Distributed Generation Energy Future
In this post by HOMER CEO Dr. Peter Lilienthal, we consider the problem of how to classify microgrids. This is a special entry in our microgrid learning series. […]
Significant Growth Projected for Microgrid Revenues Through 2020
According to a new report from Navigant Research, deployments of microgrids globally is estimated to be approximately $8.3 billion in 2013, increasing to more than $40 billion annually by 2020 […]
Microgrid Market Boom on the Way as Europe and Asia Catch Up to U.S.
The global microgrid market is set for exceptional growth in the coming years, as Europe and Asia mimic the growth that has seen the US dominate the industry, […]
Panelists Cite Keys for Renewable Energy
From “Panelists Cite Keys for Renewable Energy,” published March, 19, 2013 in the Boulder County Business Report: “Homer Energy LLC in Boulder looks for places where renewable-energy projects […]
Global Lithium-ion Market to Double Despite Recent Issues
The global lithium-ion battery market was worth $11.7 billion in 2012 and is expected to double by 2016, according to Frost & Sullivan. This will happen despite the […]
More Than 400 Smart Grid Vendors Vying For $66bn Emerging Markets Opportunity
Across 35 emerging market countries, there are more than 400 vendors vying for the more than $66 billion smart grid market opportunity by 2023. Among these 400 vendors, […]