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There's growing interest in community-scale energy - from energy improvement districts to co-gen projects and stand-alone facilities. Scroll down to learn more.
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Washington, D.C.'s Howard University is getting an unusual endowment from Pareto Energy: it's very own microgrid. |
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Industry heavyweights are telling lawmakers tasked with planning America’s energy future that microgrids represent the most efficient and consumer-friendly plan for bailing out the country’s aging electricity infrastructure. Are they right? We’ve rounded up recent news and views, including a video showcasing a microgrid work-in-progress in a small UK village. |
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At a Capitol Hill briefing today hosted by the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, the smart microgrid design emerged as the vision for transforming the electricity system and improving the value proposition for customers. Presenters from the Galvin Electricity Initiative, Pareto Energy and the Intel Open Energy Initiative outlined plans for wide-scale implementation of microgrid development and the policy changes needed to make this vision a reality. |
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HP today presented new research from HP Labs, the company's central research arm, showing how the manure output of cows and the heat output of data centers can be combined to create an economically and environmentally sustainable operation. |
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The developments that the Naperville, Ill. Department of Public Utilities have made in their efforts to update their power grid epitomizes the city’s true spirit of innovation. When they set out on their mission to build a more reliable, cost competitive, and efficient grid nearly 20 years ago, they started down a path toward building a smart microgrid before the term even existed. This case study sponsored by the Galvin Electricity Initiative highlights that effort. |
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EDSA, the leading developer of power analytics solutions for the design, testing, and management of complex electrical power systems, and Viridity Energy – a smart grid company that transforms large energy consumers into virtual energy generators – today announced a vital collaboration: the two companies will technically support a groundbreaking microgrid project, called RESCO, being deployed at the University of California, San Diego. |
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EDSA and Viridity Energy will collaborate on a project at UC San Diego to demonstrate integration of onsite renewable energy production into the university's campus-wide microgrid. |
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Utilities are gradually dropping their guard and seeing the overall advantages microgrids could bring to the Smart Grid, and many industry giants — think Siemens, Lockheed Martin and a horde of other companies and universities — are researching and developing ways to make them practical and efficient. |
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The residents of Ashton Hayes, a small village in Cheshire have, with support from Carbon Connections, created a rural microgrid. In partnership with EA Technology and the University of Chester, this project investigates an innovative approach to the efficient use and control of small scale energy generation that enables communities to take control of their carbon footprint. The video includes interviews with project planners as well as community participants. |
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What's being ignored in all the hubbub over Smart Grid technology is that we are moving to a new way of buying and selling electricity. If you fast forward 10 or 15 years, it will look much different than it does today. But how will it look? Richard Tabors, author and VP at Charles River Associates, suggests there are four market models that capture the critical elements of what will emerge when the Smart Grid is fully implemented. Which one do you see in your future? |
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Microgrids, which are “islanded” power generation and distribution zones that can operate autonomously from the larger electrical grid, are an increasing area of focus for institutions, governments, corporations, and utilities. According to a recent report from Pike Research, a variety of trends are converging to create significant growth potential for microgrids, and the cleantech market intelligence firm forecasts that more than 2,000 sites will be operational worldwide by 2015, up from fewer than 100 in 2010. |
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Infotility, a provider of distributed intelligent agent software, just kicked off the field-test phase of a Smart Grid demonstration project to optimize large-scale renewable energy in Marin County, California. |
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Between now and 2015, over 3.1GW of new microgrid capacity could come online worldwide, representing a total market value of $7.8 billion. So why do some utilities resist microgrids ... while others embrace them? Pike Research analyst Peter Asmus shares the backstory - and some changes afoot. |
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Lewisboro, NY, had a chance to get utilities to pay them for their efficiency. But they declined even to hear the proposal. |
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The Feds are committing more than $3 billion to renewable energy production facilities around the country. Read more on that, plus these developments too: GE wins Marine base microgrid project ... Study says utilities are still spending ... CHP systems get DOE support. |
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Two stylized alternative visions of how the power system might evolve to meet future requirements for the high power quality and reliability (PQR) electricity service that modern digital economies demand will be contrasted, a supergrids paradigm and a dispersed paradigm by speaker Chris Marnay. Dr. Marnay is Staff Scientist and Leader of the Technology Evaluation, Modeling, and Assessment Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley. |
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Grid divorce -- the process of becoming all or partly independent of a centralized utility -- was already a growing phenomenon in the U.S. A new financing mechanism may now make it even easier for campuses, office parks and neighborhoods to generate their own power. Click for the details... |
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The macro trends point inescapably to microgrids as the Next Big Thing, predicts Jesse Berst. Utilities must quickly decide when and how to cope. Vendors must quickly figure out when and how to profit. Click to read about the market drivers and get links to real-world examples. |
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Presents overview of the microgrid concept, distributed generation options, various system configurations and control schemes. |
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Given that the price of making loads intelligent is cost-effective, the benefits of a active load control are analyzed from a variety of perspectives via simulation, specifically with respect to frequency and voltage control and load management. |
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The objective of this 107 page report is to review the potential architectures, system engineering issues, and economic factors associated with the deployment of micro-grids as they relate to the technical and economic feasibility of such systems. Key issues include the type of system layout (network versus radial), operating voltage levels, types and capacity of generation required, and system protection and control needs. Another objective of the report is to identify areas of focus for future studies such as design approaches for new distribution systems and needed control and protection technologies to help facilitate development of micro-grids in the future. |
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