The British government takes steps to save energy, AND LIVES, with their new Green Energy Plan for Afghanistan. Would you believe……one of the world’s highest oil producing regions […]
Microgrids in the News 02/04/2011
Can we eliminate need for fossil fuels? A newly released report from the WWF says that we can (no, not wrestlers, its the World Wide Fund for Nature). […]
NYU Announces Completion of Gas-Fired Cogeneration Plant
New York University (NYU) has announced the completion of its new, natural gas-fired cogeneration plant, which will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 23% compared to its 30 year-old, […]
Demand response, distributed generation, and utilities in focus as we move to a renewable energy future
First Micro-Grid, Distributed Energy Resource Community Coming to California California Dreaming? While the utility companies grapple with how they will incorporate the renewable energy needed to meet California’s […]
Distributed Generation News Brought to you by HOMER Energy
Here are some of today’s highlights in the world of micro-grids, the smart grid, and renewable energy: Just how much impact will a Smart Grid have? Check out […]
Clean, Smart Micro-grids
Despite recent experiments with deregulation, the current top-down utility paradigm has remained essentially unchanged for a century. Large central station generators provide an undifferentiated power product over a […]
Why Isolated Utilities should be the Test Bed for Smart Grids
There is a lot of optimism about the potential for the Smart Grid. That optimism is justified because communication and control technologies have advanced tremendously in the last […]
HOMER Users are Creating a New Energy Future
If the world is going to transition to a sustainable energy future, then renewable energy must eventually supply more than a 20% share of the power sector. However, […]
New Revelations about the Future of Oil
Everyone wants to know the future price of oil, but has the most authoritative source on the topic been politicized? According to the Guardian newspaper, 2 senior officials […]
The Clean Energy Innovator’s Dilemma
Are you one of the innovators that will disrupt the unsustainable energy industries and lead the clean energy revolution? The innovator’s dilemma is that established companies can’t develop […]
HOMER Users are Ushering in the New Era of Clean Energy
Who are the little guys working in their pajamas that are going to usher in the new era of clean energy? The last NEXT BIG THING was ushered […]
Hybrid Renewable Power Systems in the Utility Planning Paradigm
Utility systems have always been hybrid power systems. The traditional hybrid mix was a combination of baseload and peaking plants. The primary utility business model was investing in […]
Visions of the Future from an Airplane Window
In the early 1980’s I was selling high efficicency sodium lighting. I could look out an airplane window and tell that there was a huge potential to increase […]
HOMER at the intersection of 2 industry mega-trends
Two conflicting trends are intersecting to create a need for a tool like HOMER. The first is the increasing diversity of new power technologies. The second is the […]
Is Clean Energy the Next Big Thing?
The clean energy industry is being invaded by refugees from the information processing industry. Having watched the explosion of technology and innovation in information and communication technology they […]
HOMER’s Role in the Clean & Smart Grid
Distributed power systems will be an essential element that improves the reliability, resilience, and flexibility of the upcoming smart grid. Supplying more energy due to new technologies such […]
Welcome to HOMER Energy
Our mission is to expand the role of clean energy by giving the world a simple, but powerful tool. Clean energy is not a single thing. It is […]