Xcel Energy to Bring Solar Microgrid to Minneapolis Neighborhoods
Xcel Energy will invest in sustainability by providing a resilience hub in three Minneapolis neighborhoods. They will install rooftop solar …
Community Microgrids
Community Microgrids are the convergence of Community Solar Gardens (CSGs) and Microgrids. They are a potential way for communities to have a say in how their power is produced, while creating resiliency and sharing the costs. In the developing world, community microgrids can be used to achieve electrification for the first time. In the developed world they are often used to help communities achieve renewable energy targets.
Schneider Electric, WWF Install Solar-Storage Mini-Grids on Diminishing Islands in India’s Threatened Sundarbans
Stretching across the Bay of Bengal from on to offshore the coasts of northeast India and Bangladesh, the Sundarbans is the world’s largest remaining mangrove... Read more →
World Bank Spurs Kenya Off-Grid Solar Expansion with $150MM IDA Credit
The World Bank recently added substantial impetus to the wave of off-grid solar energy projects sweeping across Sub-Saharan Africa. The world’s preeminent multilateral development bank... Read more →
Spain’s TTA Builds Five 24/7 Solar-Wind Minigrids on Ghana’s Lake Volta Islands
Ghana is turning to the construction of solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power mini-grids in a bid to provide rural communities with modern, sustainable electricity... Read more →
New Jersey PUB Approves 13 Town Center Microgrid Feasibility Studies
New Jersey government officials on July 5 took a tour of Veolia’s Trenton Thermal Energy District Network, the proposed technology hub for a proposed Downtown... Read more →
Institute for Transformative Technologies Looks to Spur Rural Renewable Electrification
The Institute for Transformative Technologies’ (ITT) “Utility-in-a-Box” (UiB) is making its debut in India as three private-sector energy services companies (ESCOs) embark on testing and... Read more →
Microgrid 2.0 and Aging U.S. Grid Infrastructure
April’s power outages in Los Angeles (LA) and San Francisco (SF) were among the latest reminders of the degree to which societies the world over... Read more →
Public-Private Partnership Results in Low-Carbon Community Microgrid for Blue Lake Rancheria Native American Tribe
Solar PV-battery energy storage systems (BESS) and hybrid/renewable energy microgrids are catching on in Native American tribal communities in California and across the western US.... Read more →
University, Industry, Community Partner to Build Solar Microgrid on Chemehuevi Tribal Reservation
A university-industry-community project team is building a renewable energy microgrid on the reservation of the Chemeuevi Indian Tribe near Lake Havasu, California. Supported by a... Read more →
Real Estate Investment, Affordable Housing Groups Latch On to Distributed “Green” Energy Locomotive
Real estate investment companies and affordable housing NGOs in the U.S and overseas are increasingly joiningthe “low impact” housing movement and latching on to the... Read more →