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Commissioning of Multi-Platform Solar-Storage Microgrid Under Way on Sardinia

Published on March 7, 2017 February 23, 2017 by Andrew Burger

France’s Electro Power Systems (EPS) yesterday announced commissioning of a novel hybrid solar energy-energy storage microgrid on the Italian island of Sardinia has begun. In... Read more →

USAID Adds Momentum to Sub-Saharan Off-Grid Solar with $4 Million of New SOGE Grant Awards

Published on March 5, 2017 February 16, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Spun-off from Power Africa, a multilateral public-private partnership initiated by then President Barack Obama in 2013, USAID’s Scaling Off-Grid Energy (SOGE) Development Grand Challenge in short order... Read more →

New Solar Cells, Supercapacitors, Blockchain Apps Expected to Drive Renewable Power Costs Down Further

Published on February 9, 2017 February 9, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Research results set out in the 2017 edition of Lloyd’s Technology Radar – the first to zoom in on low carbon energy and power and... Read more →

Self-Driving Batteries, Virtual Microgrids, and Other Uber-like Future Energy Models

Published on February 1, 2017 January 12, 2017 by Microgrid News

This new slideshare from Professor Damien Ernst describes microgrids, V2G (Vehicle To Grid), autonomous vehicle energy delivery, and other futuristic models …

Biggest Drivers Of US Electric Grid Transformation According to DOE

Published on January 12, 2017 January 6, 2017 by Microgrid News

According to the 2nd Quadrennial Energy Review, here the key trends shaping the electricity sector today. It also reads as a …

Blockchain Underpins Germany’s NEW 4.0 100 Percent Renewable Energy Plan

Published on January 15, 2017 December 27, 2016 by Andrew Burger

Belgium “green” energy brokerage Yuso and Netherlands-based smart “Energy of Things” consultancy Priogen engaged in Europe’s first Blockchain-based, peer-to-peer (P2P) energy transacation during the EMART... Read more →

World’s First Open Microgrid Lets Commercial Zones Co-Invest and Optimize Energy Resources

Published on January 3, 2017 December 21, 2016 by Microgrid News

Two new pilot projects, dubbed ‘E-Cloud’ seek to develop and optimize open microgrids in Belgium’s industrial zones. E-cloud is funded …

UK Blockchain Startup Aims to Revamp Energy Sector from the Top-Down

Published on January 12, 2017 December 15, 2016 by Andrew Burger

A small but growing number of Blockchain-driven startups are attempting to shake the foundations of the power and energy industry from the ground up in... Read more →

Can Blockchain Gain Traction in Power and Energy Markets?

Published on January 12, 2017 December 1, 2016 by Andrew Burger

Touted as the next big wave in economy-wide digital technology disruption, the hype surrounding Blockchain continues even as organizations temper their appetites for investing in... Read more →

Schneider Launches New EcoStruxure Energy IoT Architecture and Platform

Published on December 6, 2016 November 29, 2016 by Andrew Burger

Emerging ¨Internet of Things¨ (IoT) technology plays a central role in building a vital, environmentally friendly energy infrastructure for the 21st century, a future in... Read more →