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    Will Co-locating Renewable Energy with New Data Centers Solve the Power Crunch?: Google, Intersect Power Trying Options

    To meet rising demand for reliable, clean data center power, Google is joining with clean energy company Intersect Power and global impact investing platform and private equity...
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    Nabors Chooses e2's Virtual Utility Technology to Electrify On-Site Drilling for Oil, Gas and Geothermal

    Oil and gas operations account for about 15% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Decarbonizing the drilling sector significantly with electrification, such as potential...
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    Launched in Chelsea, Mass., Virtual Microgrid Concept Could Expand to Other Cities

    Chelsea’s virtual microgrid could serve as a model for deploying distributed energy resources from the community up, changing the architecture of the aging grid, say developers...
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    Brazilian University Launches New Solar and Energy Storage Microgrid

    The microgrid, located at the State University of Campinas, also known as Unicamp, is expected to save the university roughly $75,000 in annual energy costs.
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    Gold Mine Turns to Geothermal to Decarbonize On-Site Operations

    Quaise Energy and Nevada Gold Mines (NGM) are investigating how geothermal can further decarbonized NGM’s coal-fired TS Power Plant.
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    Houston Seeks to Boost Resiliency in Neighborhoods, Beginning with a Microgrid for an Outage-Prone Community

    “Houston has to step up its game on the resiliency front. We need to be prepared for high wind and high water, heat and flooding,” said the city’s resilience officer. The city...
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    Data Center Load Commitment: Big Tech Signs on to AEP Indiana Agreement for Grid Upgrade Financing

    Google, AWS and Microsoft joined Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) along with the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor, ratepayer advocate Citizens Action Coalition and Data...
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    Direct Current Microgrids: DC Proponents Say It’s the One Direction to Go

    The devices rising to the top of the modern and future economic and technological food chains are almost all DC, such as computers, solar cells, electric vehicles, batteries ...

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    Revolutionizing Defense: The Crucial Role of Microgrids and Schneider Electric in Department of Defense Energy Resiliency

    Last month, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) said that U.S. power grids are becoming more susceptible to cyberattacks every day, with vulnerable attack...

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    Quickchat: How SCADA Can Manage and Make Sense of Renewable and Distributed Energy Data

    Managing editor Rod Walton spoke with Brett Benson, marketing director for global renewable energy solutions at global automation technology and software firm Emerson...

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    7 Strategies to Make Microgrids a Fit for Utility Grid Modernization

    In 2022, Enchanted Rock and Microgrid Knowledge conducted a survey of leaders at large U.S. electric utilities. The goal was to understand their actions and attitudes around microgrid...

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    Microgrid Standardization Will Accelerate Much Needed Adoption

    Demand for microgrids is growing in large part because they offer resilience for today’s energy needs. Microgrids are just one example of distributed energy resources. They generate...
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    3 reasons your microgrid controls should be able to communicate in real time

    Tom Poteet, vice president of corporate development at Mesa Solutions, outlines three things a microgrid controller should be able to do: accept control commands, engage in site...