| | | | | | | | Today's News from the Editors of Microgrid Knowledge |
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| | | By Lisa Cohn When a community needs resilience, it’s important that developers, designers and equipment providers slow down and do their homework–studying local emergency plans, for example. This gives them a context for beginning a conversation with a city, town or tribe, said experts during a community microgrid... |
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| | | | | | Microgrid projects in 2025 highlighted the importance of on-site power for critical infrastructure, with advancements in AI, data centers, and military applications shaping the sector's trajectory despite ongoing debates about decarbonization and energy sources. |
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| | | | | | Under the Neighborhood Power Plan, solar and battery systems will be installed at approximately 1,500 homes and 250 community institutions across the city over the next three years, forming the backbone of what will be one of the largest community-based virtual power plants (VPP) in the deep south. |
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| | | | | | Peninsula Clean Energy plans a 100% solar-powered community microgrid to provide resilience to the town of Pescadero that would serve more residents and organizations than any other community microgrid in California, planners say. |
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| | | | High school senior Juliana Robinson has spent the last two years spearheading a solar and energy storage project at her church. Involved in everything from system design to writing the grant application, Robinson’s work has transformed the Methow Valley United Methodist Church into a resiliency hub that will serve the entire community during grid outages... |
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| | | | Developers of the proposed $165B Project Jupiter data center campus in New Mexico say most residents are in favor and that the project will create many jobs. Environmentalists say a proposed off-grid and natural gas-fired microgrid would harm residents by raising ozone levels and contributing to water shortages in a county experiencing drought. |
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| | | | West Virginia is actively promoting microgrid development to attract data centers, backed by supportive legislation, but faces environmental scrutiny over a proposed gas-fired plant near Davis, raising questions about transparency and sustainability. |
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| | | | Microgrids, along with other distributed energy resources, may supply as much as 50% of generation over the next decade, said panelists at a teleconference organized by the federal Department of Energy Onsite Technical Assistance Partnerships, which offers free resources for onsite energy developers. |
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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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