| | | | | | | | Today's News from the Editors of Microgrid Knowledge | | |
| | | By Kathy Hitchens Located at the Lucerne Alpine Senior Center in Lucerne, CA, the off-grid solar and energy storage microgrid provides up to 72 hours of uninterrupted power, even during extreme weather or grid disruptions. |
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| | | | | | While the U.S. Department of Energy and California Energy Commission are testing long-duration energy storage technologies, battery providers are working to lower the levelized costs of the technology. Invinity Energy Systems says its levelized costs are now below $100/MWh |
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| | | | | | Orlando, home of Disneyworld and known as the Theme Park Capital of the World by many, has several major entities engaged in serious, long-term microgrid and distributed energy research throughout the 2020s. |
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| | | | | | Landmark Homes and sonnen have deployed a residential virtual power plant in a master-planned Edmonton community. The system combines solar, battery storage and VPP software to support both household energy needs and peak grid demand. |
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| | | | In this QuickChat video, Chetan Chandore, new energy solutions marketing leader for Cummins, explains why battery energy storage is vital to making microgrids and distributed energy resources more resilient and sustainable. |
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| | | | Sponsored | | Take a closer look at propane — a resilient energy source that reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 52 percent compared with grid electricity. |
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| | | | Some utilities are offering flexible interconnection pilot programs that hasten interconnection and lower costs for participating customers–and ratepayers–while helping move the clean energy transition forward. |
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| | | | The Groton II microgrid is the second 3-MW energy storage microgrid launched by the Groton Electric Light Department and Lightshift Energy. It will provide financial, resilience and environmental benefits to the town of Groton, Massachusetts. |
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| | | | Electric school buses, as mobile microgrids, can travel to communities–especially those that experience the brunt of climate change–to serve as cooling shelters and resilience hubs during climate and energy emergencies. Mutual aid agreements can help with the deployments. |
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| | The 165,000 square-foot facility in Florida’s Ponte Vedra Beach is supported by three PowerSecure PowerBlocks with 3,750 kW of backup power capacity. |
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