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Many commercial and industrial businesses are installing microgrids in order to lower their energy costs, reduce their carbon emissions, and bolster their resilience. Learn how...
Due to an aging infrastructure and increasing demand, our electrical grid is not as reliable or resilient as we need. Download this white paper to learn more about smart energy...
This white paper provides a look at current microgrid technology, examines a microgrid feasibility study and engineering options, along with tips for identifying qualified vendors...
In this paper, new voltage sensitivity indexes are proposed to search and evaluate the candidate buses in a microgrid, where the energy storage systems can be installed to contribute...
Microgrid are integral to initiatives that aim to strengthen the economy, save lives during natural disasters, and make our energy supply more sustainable and our electrical power...
This paper describes the design and operation of the microgrid installed for the US Department of Defense at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. To learn more about how to design and operating...
Microgrid Knowledge’s top 10 microgrid white papers of 2022 came from energy leaders such as Rolls-Royce, Xendee, Cummins, Eaton, Mesa Solutions, Schneider Electric, PXiSE, Ameresco...
There are two popular microgrid control techniques — rule-based (RB) and optimal dispatch (OD) algorithms. Eaton explores how to reach economic, resilience and sustainability ...
Microgrid Knowledge’s Top 10 microgrid white papers of 2021 came from energy leaders such as Siemens, Schneider Electric, S&C Electric, Eaton, Mesa Solutions, Instant On, Ameresco...
Microgrid projects can be treated as either a capital expense under a direct purchase or as an operational expense under a power purchase agreement. Joe Williams, distributed ...
Joe Williams, distributed energy resources product manager at Eaton, provides insight into approval of microgrid projects by building the business case for resilience.
Harold Ruckpaul, director of strategic alliances at Eaton, explores the energy transition, the changing flow of power and growing microgrid adoption in an interview with Kevin...
In Africa, microgrid investments will present less risk and better return prospects than mega grid projects, according to a Boston University research report.
Exploding connectivity is ramping up cybersecurity threats that need to be considered in lifecycle planning. Eaton’s Anthony Ciccozzi explores the ins and outs of microgrid cybersecurit...
An Eaton production facility in Wadeville, South Africa is reducing its energy and operational costs beyond its expectations thanks to a microgrid that uses first and second life...
Microgrid 2019 will highlight the US armed forces’ growing use of military microgrids as a means to improve energy resiliency and green its facilities. The event will be held ...
Microgrid Knowledge offers a library of industry white papers and reports that we update regularly. Topics most viewed in 2019 included microgrid financing, clean energy microgrids...
Yet another global name is expanding its microgrid play — Rolls-Royce — with yesterday’s announcement that it has taken a stake in an energy storage and controls startup and will...
A new report from Eaton explores how to meet cyber threats to industrial control systems and electrical distribution systems proactively with a system-wide defensive approach ...
Pittsburgh, which hopes to eventually develop a grid of microgrids, continues to evolve as a center of energy innovation with about 20 distributed energy, nanogrid and microgrid...
Combined heat and power (CHP) continues to be the dominant form of distributed energy installed in microgrids globally, but solar energy threatens to usurp its position by 2026...
Sometimes events make an argument more strongly than words can. Such was the case in 2017 when disaster after disaster spoke to the vulnerability of the electric grid and the ...
