| | | | | | | | Today's News from the Editors of Microgrid Knowledge | | |
| | | By Kathy Hitchens The initiative will develop two mobile and up to 24 permanent microgrids across the state in an effort to strengthen emergency power access for critical community services. |
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| | | | | | By Sept. 1, the Calistoga Resiliency Center, developed by Energy Vault, is expected to begin operating. The project seeks to reduce diesel emissions, provide resilience to the town of Calistoga during public safety power outages and participate in the California Independent System Operator market. |
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| | | | | | The solar and storage microgrid can deliver up to 2 MWh of electricity per day and will fully power the Costco tire center in Norwalk, Connecticut. |
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| | | | | | Watch this QuickChat to learn more! |
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| | | | Launched in 2021, the pilot delivered electricity access 3.5 times faster than a traditional grid extension, reduced household connection costs, generated a 3,000% rise in demand and boosted business revenue by 68% in Kiwumu, a village located six miles north of the equator. |
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| | | | Sponsored | | Widespread electrification, rising energy costs, and more frequent extreme weather events are compounding to create challenges for the country’s traditional electrical grid. And, with our aging unidirectional model under strain, there is an increasing need to rethink how power is generated and... |
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| | | | A West Virginia law–opposed by an environmental group–allows new data centers to be served by behind-the-meter microgrids whose owners could sell 10% of the power generated into the wholesale market. The goals of the measure include protecting ratepayers and the existing fossil fuel industry. |
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| | | | Representatives from Intel, Google and Amazon described their need for resilience and clean energy at a data center and energy conference held in July. Microgrid proponents described microgrids as an important solution to both challenges. |
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| | | | The CHP and prime power package will include Caterpillar’s latest model G3520K generator sets and equipment to provide both electricity and capture waste heat to power and cool the high-density servers. In addition, the solution will include 1.1 GWh of grid-forming battery energy storage. |
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| | How is a microgrid defined? A few different definitions exist. Here we set out to explain what we mean by ‘microgrid’ at Microgrid Knowledge. |
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| | | | Sponsored | | As the world faces pressing challenges related to climate change, resource depletion, and energy security, the urgency to transition towards sustainable energy systems has never been greater. In this context, hydrogen emerges as a promising candidate for driving this transition. |
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