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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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As the Smart Grid unfolds, utilities face pressing challenges they've never seen before. How do you grapple with technologies, programs and services that are brand new — and get it right the first time? Click inside for a new service to help utilities prepare for Smart Grid deployments, and to do it with less time and money. |
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Canadian electric vehicle fleet systems integrator Rapid Electric Vehicles is building fully electric Ancillary Power Vehicles for the U.S. Army to use in a multi-faceted microgrid research and development program. The vehicles are designed to reduce the high economic and environmental costs of fossil fuels and to provide fast backup power in emergencies. |
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Today's electric grid is too unreliable and vulnerable to suit the Defense Department. So the DOD and partners are planning a microgrid demonstration project that will incorporate Smart Grid technologies to improve efficiency and security. |
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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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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 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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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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in Europe the transmitter of the power and the supplier are split now but i think the really democratisation means also that people will become independant and the question is if this already takes ...