Postcard From the Future? Ta’u Island Ditches Diesel With Tesla-SolarCity Microgrid
In ‘Before The Flood,’ Elon Musk tells Leonardo DiCaprio that just 100 Gigafactories would be enough to move the entire …
Microgrids
Naval Multi-Physics Lab Adds Ice Energy Storage to its Renewable Microgrid
The addition of Calmac’s IceBank energy storage technology is the latest in the US Naval Postgraduate School Multi-Physics Lab’s efforts to design, test and build an integrated renewable energy-storage microgrid on its Monterey, California campus.
Contract To Design Six Interconnected Microgrids at Pearl Harbor Goes To Burns & McDonnell
HONOLULU, HAWAII—The High Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) announced today that its Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT) program just …
Utility Grant Boosting Minnesota Microgrid Research
A recent grant from Xcel Energy is helping a Minnesota University in investigating the Gopher States future microgrid potential. According …
Watch This Fishing Village In Haiti Get Transformed by A Solar Microgrid
Sigora Solar recently completed a solar powered microgrid in Mole Saint Nicolas, Haiti – a remote fishing village seven hours by …
Scaling up Microgrids in India: Connecting the dots
The Prime Minister of India has been saying that electricity will be brought to all villages by 2018 with power …
Mobile Phone Adoption In Africa Can Provide Tools, Demand, and Lessons for Off-Grid Electrification
Hundreds of millions of phones (and smartphones) have been activated in Africa. But the aspiration of portable and renewable off-Grid …
“It’s Like The Early Days of the Internet,” Blockchain-based Brooklyn Microgrid Tests P2P Energy Trading
[wpsm_quote author=”Scott Clavenna – CEO of Greentech Media on Blockchain” float=”left” width=”30″]“When the internet was first introduced, it was hard …
Microgrid Business Models Gain Traction In Kenya As Africa Leapfrogs Electric Grid
Kenya Microgrid Company SteamaCo Is Deploying Renewable Energy, Pay-As-You-Go Microgrids In Rural Africa One of the most interesting aspects of …
Johnson Controls-Tyco Merger to Create One of World’s Largest Battery Storage Companies
Johnson Controls (JCI) has emerged as a leading player in the microgrid industry and markets, expanding into the nascent, rapidly evolving cleantech market segment off... Read more →