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    News and feature articles on microgrids in Europe including RFP's, policies and players impacting the region.
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    April 29, 2025
    Spanish airport network AENA reported that backup power kept many terminals operating despite the peninsula-wide outage.

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    Feb. 10, 2025
    As we enter 2025, microgrids are driving the evolution of the New Energy Landscape, fueled by advancements in renewable energy and smart technology. I see several transformati...
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    June 25, 2024
    U.S. microgrid installed capacity has sailed past 10 GW and hundreds of projects, but Europe is not moving forward nearly as fast despite its growing adoption of renewable and...
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    Feb. 20, 2024
    The massive on-site turbine could produce an additional 2 terawatthours (TWh, or 2,000 GWh) of renewable electricity, powered by biofuels, according to Doosan Škoda Power. The...
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    The Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales. (Source: The Royal Mint)
    July 21, 2023
    The multitechnology microgrid includes solar, wind, combined heat and power, and dual chemistry battery storage.
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    Rooftop based PV-solar power. Source: spa-solceller-lomma
    June 23, 2023
    The microgrid startup has big plans for Scandinavia and beyond.
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    April 15, 2022
    “We have to do something,” Will Heegaard, operations manager for Footprint Project — a nonprofit that provides solar microgrids and other emergency power systems to disaster areas...
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    March 9, 2022
    Solar panels and batteries are common elements of microgrids. Wind turbines are more of a rarity, especially on city buildings. IBIS Power hopes to change that with its PowerNest...
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    Austrian Alps. By Anna Om/Shutterstock.com
    March 9, 2022
    Communities in the European Alpines pursue democratic energy through collective action — microgrids — with the help of the ALPGRIDS project.