When it comes to market signals, SolarCity's move
into microgrids this week was a clanging, light - flashing, the - train - is - arriving announcement.
New York has awarded $ 3.3 million for research
into microgrids and other electric resiliency projects, among them an underground microgrid.
«The integration of renewable resources
into microgrids is an active area of research,» Erin Whitney, a researcher at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks said.
Not exact matches
«Increased
microgrid development unlocks huge economic potential for the 175 aboriginal and northern off - grid communities in Canada, driving private investment
into these areas.
In June 2017, SpaceX entered
into an agreement with Tesla to purchase a
microgrid energy system and installation services for approximately $ 1.9 million.
A Puerto Rico transformed
into an archipelago of
microgrids would also in theory better stand up to storms and provide cheaper energy.
According to Kurtz,
microgrids are finding application in places like Hawaii and India where utility prices are exorbitantly high or where communities are too remote to be tied
into the macrogrid.
Whitney hopes the information compiled in the collection of papers will help educate other communities about the value of integrating
microgrid technology
into a larger system to build resilience.
After acquiring US commercial and industrial (C&I) provider Green Charge, French
microgrid specialist Electro Power Systems and other ventures, Engie wrapped many of the acquisitions
into the parent brand, including renaming Green Charge as Engie Storage N America.
The
microgrid will be a living demonstration of one of the key themes of VERGE events: how companies will increasingly need to develop technologies that foster interoperability — the ability to integrate seamlessly
into a variety of systems with an almost unlimited combination of components.
«But in order to help scale the growth — with so much of cost reduction being related to scale — helping integrate more solar
into the grid and taking advantage of
microgrid opportunities... would go a long way toward reinforcing the resiliency of the grid and grid security.
Before developing a community
microgrid, it's important to engage the right experts and take
into account certain market challenges, as detailed in this except from «Community
Microgrids: A Guide for Mayors and City Leaders Seeking Clean, Reliable and Locally Controlled Energy.»
Geothermal leader Ormat Technologies plans to diversify
into energy storage and demand response with the $ 35 million acquisition of software and
microgrid technology company Viridity Energy.
SolarCity was unchanged on the month despite expanding
into new states and launching its
microgrid product, GridLogic.
The
Microgrid Alliance (MGA), one of two microgrid advocacy organizations formed last year, has folded into a larger group, the Association for Demand Response & Smart Gr
Microgrid Alliance (MGA), one of two
microgrid advocacy organizations formed last year, has folded into a larger group, the Association for Demand Response & Smart Gr
microgrid advocacy organizations formed last year, has folded
into a larger group, the Association for Demand Response & Smart Grid (ADS).
Microgrid boosters focus on ways to «empower the consumer» as Puerto Rico's utility moves
into its final restoration push.
The project brings scientists and engineers together to ease the integration of high levels of wind power
into diesel
microgrids.
We get
into these issues in our new report Think
Microgrid, downloadable here or at ThinkMicrogrid.com.
-LSB-...] by doing so, the commission fails to take
into account that
microgrids might cost more, but provide greater benefits than grid power.
Microgrids integrate these renewables
into the energy mix intelligently.
It began with wind, then PV here substantially, and when the
microgrids of developing nations join
into regional grids, supported in part by participant - customers, who can buy and sell as their needs and resources permit, the shift will be apparent.
Finally, letting distributed generators compete and interconnect fairly could nearly eliminate blackout risks by organizing the grid
into local «
microgrids» that normally interconnect but can stand alone at need («islanding»).
Japan advanced its
microgrid know - how
into the Philippines.
-LSB-...] $ 35 million acquisition of software and
microgrid company Viridity Energy, a move that diversifies Ormat
into energy storage and demand -LSB-...]