Our out-of-date fossil-fuel-based infrastructure is failing a world where climate change is bringing more frequent, more extreme, more intense weather to the planet. And the lesson, if we are smart enough to learn it, is that as long as we’re dependent on fossil fuels, these weather events and other related disasters will wreak long-lasting havoc on human lives, the economy, and on the environment.
distributed generation
Will the real microgrid please stand up? (What is a microgrid and why should I care?)
This is the second post in the HOMER Energy Microgrid Learning Series, designed to help the layperson understand what microgrids are and why they will soon be a […]
Microgrid Value Propositions
Microgrids are power systems that can operate autonomously using combinations of conventional generation technologies, such as diesel gensets and combined heat and power systems, renewable resources, other new […]
Shift to renewable energy driven by economics
Investment and success with renewable energy will be driven, ultimately, by economics. Today’s stories focus strongly in the arena of value, as we shift from a fossil-fuel dominated […]
Microgrids in the News 03/28/2011
Distributed Energy: A Field in Flux Optimism is in the air as industry experts weigh in on their opinions of the state of the distributed-generation industry. Improvements in […]
Migrogrids in the News 03/15/2011
Top Energy Stories: Japan Faces Potential Nuclear Disaster as Radiation Levels Rise Japan’s nuclear crisis verged toward catastrophe on Tuesday after an explosion damaged the vessel containing the […]
Microgrids in the News 03/07/2011
Today’s resources and news stories: Deploying Advanced Energy Storage Makes Sense Small-scale Renewable Energy Hits the Big Time in the UK Renewable energy standards: The health, security, […]
Can the Smart Grid Exist Without Renewable Energy?
In this article summarizing the Distributech Conference and Exhibition, All About the Smart Grid, author Elizabeth Cutright puts forth the argument that no true “smart grid” can exist […]
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 […]
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 […]