Utility Distribution Microgrid Archives

San Francisco, Los Angeles Outages Highlight Growing Risks, Rising Costs of Aging Power Infrastructure

Published on May 5, 2017 May 5, 2017 by Andrew Burger

San Franciscans and Los Angelenos alike suffered through major power failures in April. Given California’s national and world leading role in fostering deployment of a... Read more →

TenneT, IBM Launch Pilot Distributed Energy-Blockchain Projects in Germany and the Netherlands

Published on May 3, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Northwest Europe continues to serve as a world magnet and hub for Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain development – applications in the distributed power... 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 →

Denver Solar-Storage Microgrid to Deliver Multiple Service Streams, Benefits Today

Published on February 24, 2023 February 3, 2017 by Andrew Burger

In a white paper released this week, project partners Panasonic, Xcel Energy and Younicos lay out the stream of benefits expected from Peña Station NEXT,... 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 …

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 …

Military, Utilities Key to Microgrid Growth, Multi-Stakeholder Ownership Models

Published on September 29, 2016 September 3, 2016 by Andrew Burger

GTM Research waxes optimistic on U.S. microgrid market prospects in a Grid Edge market research report released Aug. 29. The market research company forecasts U.S.... Read more →

How Can Microgrids and Utilities Become Best Buds?

Published on January 12, 2017 June 22, 2016 by Peter Asmus

The term microgrid used to give utility executives sleepless nights and indigestion. These small, self-reliant systems would pop up, seemingly …