| | | | | | | | Today's News from the Editors of Microgrid Knowledge |
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| | | By Kathy Hitchens In what’s being touted as a first of its kind installation in Virginia, Roanoke City Public Schools will add solar and energy storage microgrids to its two high school buildings, which serve as resilience hubs during emergencies. |
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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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| | | | | | Princeton’s microgrid–which became well known for riding through Superstorm Sandy more than 13 years ago–has been upgraded with heat pumps and a large thermal storage tank that has boosted efficiency and saved millions of dollars in utility costs. |
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| | | | | | Real estate logistics firm Prologis has completed the building lease with Enchanted Rock for part of the Legacy Point development which will include several facilities for multiple companies. Enchanted Rock will use the 407,302-square-foot site to produce its next-generation line of onsite power systems. |
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| | | | With peak demand set to surge over the next decade, NERC warns of potential grid shortfalls as early as 2028. Utilities and large energy users are increasingly deploying onsite power—including microgrids—to help manage the strain. |
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| | | | Sponsored | | With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, renewable energy developers face stricter eligibility criteria for federal incentives, requiring careful navigation of domestic sourcing rules and foreign entity restrictions to maximize project benefits. |
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| | | | If nothing else, Trump’s words in the State of the Union address echoed the concerns of not only the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), but also the worries of residential ratepayers wondering if more than 100 GW of projected new demand from artificial intelligence (AI) factories will strip the affordability away from their own electricity... |
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| | | | Against a backdrop of delayed federal funding for resilience projects in Puerto Rico, an electric cooperative has attracted $2.2 million from a private nonprofit organization and $3.5 million from the Department of Energy for 10 microgrid projects that will keep essential services running in the central mountain region. |
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| | | | The Trump administration killed a number of clean energy and microgrid funding programs. But states like Oregon are stepping up with funding to ensure communities can ride through the increasing number of outages and public safety power shutoffs. |
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| | While interconnection issues and threats to grid reliability are prompting data centers to consider behind-the-meter generation and microgrid solutions, it’s still difficult to create the robustness that the grid previously provided. The National Electrical Manufacturers Association has released standards to help ensure microgrids can safely meet data... |
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