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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

Published on May 14, 2022 August 1, 2017 by Andrew Burger
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

Published on May 14, 2022 July 31, 2017 by Andrew Burger
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

Published on May 14, 2022 July 26, 2017 by Andrew Burger
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

Published on May 14, 2022 July 6, 2017 by Andrew Burger
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

Published on May 14, 2022 July 3, 2017 by Andrew Burger
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

Published on May 11, 2017 May 8, 2017 by Andrew Burger
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

Published on April 28, 2017 April 28, 2017 by Andrew Burger
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

Published on April 26, 2017 April 26, 2017 by Andrew Burger
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

Published on April 20, 2017 April 20, 2017 by Andrew Burger
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 →

Demand Energy Breaks Ground on Groundbreaking Solar-Storage Microgrid in New York City

Published on April 14, 2017 April 14, 2017 by Andrew Burger
Microgrid project work is heating up across New York State as 11 development groups selected to advance to stage two of the NY Prize Community... Read more →
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