Diversifying DER Strategies to Create Microgrids: EnergyTech Webinar Wednesday
The momentum around distributed energy, renewables and microgrids are seemingly unstoppable in the U.S., no matter what’s happening at the policy side.
Political headwinds and tailwinds come and go, but ships that have sailed are able to survive them both with the end goal in mind. Giving increasingly hostile weather and expanding load demand, strengthening the grid at the edge and creating on-site power resiliency for mission-critical customers is that mission-critical goal.
Find out more about DER and Microgrid Asset Diversification
Special EnergyTech Webinar Tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 24
The good news: Growth in distributed energy sources and microgrids in the U.S. alone has been staggering. Installation of distributed solar and battery storage rose multiple GWs in the U.S. for 2024.
The latest Sustainable Energy Factbook by Bloomberg NEF determined that about 59 new microgrids were commissioned last year, strategically connected to help customers deal with increasing storm ferocity and grid outages.
All of this momentum is our opening to invite you to join us tomorrow—Wednesday, September 24—for our Energytech.com webinar on “Diversifying the Distributed Energy Mix to Create Microgrids and Holistic Power Solutions.” EnergyTech.com is a sister website of Microgrid Knowledge, both part the energy group at Endeavor B2B.
This 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. CT webinar is led by Schneider Electric microgrid experts Katie Bronchetti and Matt Holstein. Their presentation is centered around the need for energy asset diversification and flexibility.
Key points to be highlighted by Bronchetti and Holstein include making the leap from single to multiple DER strategies, focusing on microgrid resiliency, and detailing the path to EcoXpert certifications in mastering technologies such as battery storage, control systems and advanced energy analytics.
The Schneider Electric experts also will offer insights on futureproofing microgrids in the fast-changing world of AI and grid analytics.
“Diversifying the Distributed Energy Mix to Create Microgrids and Holistic Power Solutions” is a free webinar offered both live and on-demand at Energytech.com. Register online to learn more about the future flexibility of DERs and microgrids for the commercial, industrial and mission-critical customer.
Join us as we navigate the customer side of the energy transition together at EnergyTech.com.
About the Author
Rod Walton, Microgrid Knowledge Managing Editor
Managing Editor
For Microgrid Knowledge editorial inquiries, please contact Managing Editor Rod Walton at [email protected].
I’ve spent the last 15 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. I was an energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World before moving to business-to-business media at PennWell Publishing, which later became Clarion Events, where I covered the electric power industry. I joined Endeavor Business Media in November 2021 to help launch EnergyTech, one of the company’s newest media brands. I joined Microgrid Knowledge in July 2023.
I earned my Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. My career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World, all in Oklahoma . I have been married to Laura for the past 33-plus years and we have four children and one adorable granddaughter. We want the energy transition to make their lives better in the future.
Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech are focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.
Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.