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    Here you will find news and feature articles about community microgrids. Central to today’s local energy revolution, a community microgrid is a mini-version of the larger grid, but it is designed to serve a neighborhood, village, town or city.
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    June 9, 2025
    It’s not always obvious to utilities where community members need resilience most. Nashville Electric Service (NES), with numerous partners, asked community leaders to help identify...

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    June 13, 2025
    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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    May 6, 2025
    In the first commercial deployment of the Quino Energy water-based flow battery–at the High Desert Regional Health Center in Lancaster, Calif.–its electrolyte will reportedly ...
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    April 28, 2025
    Low-income communities face outage and energy-cost challenges. How microgrids can lower costs, provide energy resilience and save lives.
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    June 30, 2023
    And now 30 more microgrids are on their way promising additional economic prosperity and energy resilience to a region with a 60% poverty rate.
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    June 12, 2023
    The fuel cells will power the Calistoga microgrid during wildfires and other emergencies
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    May 17, 2023
    The highest recognition went to the Adjuntas microgrid. “This is not simply a microgrid project; this is a new economic model and community building at its finest,” said Patrice...
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    April 18, 2023
    Microgrid Knowledge has announced the names of the ten finalists for the Greater Good Awards. The winners will be announced at Microgrid 2023.
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    April 5, 2023
    East Bay Community Energy has figured out how to scale community microgrids, with 30 microgrids on the way and another 50 to 100 to follow.