What is a microgrid and how does it work? New portable units allow you to “island” home energy for off-the-grid security. No, we’re not talking about miniature cooking pans for making tiny pancakes!
March 3, 2003 — In 1996, a sagging power line in Oregon brushed against a tree, and within minutes 12 million customers in eight states lost power. Such is the vulnerability of today’s power grid. To ...
Utilities are under growing pressure to deliver increasing power to more places. Severe weather, electric vehicles, scorching heat, aging infrastructure, and an influx of new data centers and ...
Springfield and Aspen have almost nothing in common other than being county seats in Colorado. They also happen to be in electrical cul-de-sacs, at the end of transmission lines. Microgrids may help ...
Wildfires have become increasingly frequent due to climate change, with record occurrences in areas not historically prone to them. In California, wildfires and regional power shutoffs have cost ...
The real-time DERMS to be deployed by NCEMC and OATI will enable live orchestration and control of the cooperatives’ solar ...
New Lawsuit Claims ‘Catastrophic Impacts’ From Permian Basin Injection Wells Developer Calls GW Ranch in Pecos County, Texas, the ‘Largest Power Project’ in U.S. Decades-Old Rule that Allowed Logging ...
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Texas Reliability Coalition (TRC) is launching an educational outreach initiative today to engage the public and elected officials about the Utility-Scale Microgrid (USM) ...
The majority of the U.S. electric grid was built in the early 20th century — designed for the one-way transfer of electricity from large fossil-fuel power plants in rural areas directly to consumers ...
An August wildfire cut off electricity to Del Norte County, California. Residents might have been in the dark for weeks—except for the use of a makeshift microgrid that generated power locally. The ...
When Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico in 2017, winds snapped trees and destroyed homes, while heavy rains transformed streets into rivers. But after the storm passed, the human toll continued to ...
A project exploring how microgrids can help lower emissions from industrial and commercial sites in the North East is moving into proof-of-concept phase after securing £500,000 from Ofgem’s Strategic ...
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