Distributed Generation
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Press Releases
SimpliPhi Launches ‘Energize America: Prepare & Respond’ Campaign, Bringing Affordable Energy Storage Solutions to Homeowners and Businesses
OXNARD, CA (Oct. 19, 2022) — Given the volatile and unpredictable scale of recent storms, SimpliPhi Power – now part of Briggs and Stratton – is providing reduced pricing on wall-mountable PHI 3.8 kWh Battery, Big Genny Emergency Power Kit, and Little Genny Power Kit through October 31, 2022. Customer-sited battery storage is a critical solution that creates reliable […]
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Solar
How to Continue the Solar Jobs Success Story
Solar power has transformed the energy landscape over the past decade, growing from a minimal percentage of U.S. energy use to become the top source of new electric generating capacity for three years in a
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Press Releases
Zendure Launches Semi-Solid State Home Battery System, Addressing Global Issues of Energy Security and Climate Change
Palo Alto, CA – September 29, 2022 一 Zendure, one of the fastest-growing start-ups in the energy tech sector, today launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund SuperBase V, the first home energy system with semi-solid state batteries. Semi-solid-state batteries boast a 42% higher energy density and greater safety than lithium-ion phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries, providing homes […]
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Electric Vehicles
Can the Power Grid Handle More EVs?
Only about 1% of the 250 million cars, SUVs, and light-duty trucks on American roads are electric vehicles (EVs). But that’s about to change. While it’s difficult to estimate future sales, an analysis by IHS Markit projects that up to 30% of new car sales could be electric by 2030, rising to up to 45% […]
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Press Releases
Independent Analyst Firm Positions Schneider Electric as Leader in Industry Advancements for Microgrid Technology and Sustainability
Rueil-Malmaison (France), September 12, 2022 – Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has been recognized by Verdantix as a leader in microgrid technology to enable advancement in the grid-interactive ecosystem for decarbonization and sustainability in the “Schneider Electric Leads The Charge On The Democratization Of Energy” report. Increasing the grid interactivity of facilities is […]
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Power
Biden Administration Targets Industrial Decarbonization Through Electrification, Low-Carbon Fuels, CCUS
The Biden administration has laid out a comprehensive roadmap to help five energy-intensive manufacturing sectors reduce their fuel- and power-related carbon emissions and achieve net-zero by 2050. The pathways proposed for the iron and steel, cement and concrete, food and beverage, chemical manufacturing, and petroleum refining sectors may have substantial implications for future power demand. […]
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Distributed Energy
Airport Upgrade Highlights History, Energy Efficiency
A terminal at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is the world’s first to receive a new and important design recognition from a green building group. Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at SFO is being recognized
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O&M
2022 Experience POWER, Distributed Energy Conference, and HydrogeNext Show Preview
Again, this year, Experience POWER will be co-located with the Distributed Energy Conference (DEC) and HydrogeNext, giving attendees the opportunity to learn from and network with trailblazers from the power industry, who are leading the way in the world’s energy transition. These three events cover the full energy value chain for the power industry, delivering […]
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Distributed Generation
How to Prevent Downtime as the Temperature Heats Up
Climate change is continuing to drive temperatures to unprecedented levels. In just a single day in late June, the United States set or broke at least 21 high-temperature records. So, what do we do to cool down? We crank up the air conditioner. But with each surge in energy demand, our aging grid is being […]
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Legal & Regulatory
Biden Signs Bill to Transform U.S. Energy, Combat Climate Change
President Biden’s signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) should provide further impetus for growth of U.S. renewable energy, coming on the heels of a report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that installations of solar and wind power accounted for more than two-thirds of new domestic utility-scale generation in the first six months […]
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Press Releases
EnergyHub Launches Electric Vehicle Grid Management Solution for Utilities
(New York) July 26, 2022 — Today, EnergyHub announced EnergyHub EV, an offering for utilities that delivers electric vehicle demand flexibility coupled with a powerful EV data management system. EnergyHub EV is built on the core of EnergyHub’s Mercury DERMS platform, the most widely deployed grid-edge DERMS. EnergyHub works with over 60 leading utilities and […]
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Renewables
How a Solar and Storage Portfolio Ramped Up a City’s Sustainability and Financial Outlook
The City of White Plains, New York, enlisted DSD Renewables to design, engineer, develop, construct, and finance a nine-site, 6.8-MW community solar and 1.7-MW/8-MWh energy storage portfolio. The
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Solar
Turning Public Transit into a Solar Paradigm
An innovative project that combines solar power with electric buses is POWER’s Distributed Energy Award winner. The microgrid it created can help the community during emergencies, as well as during peak
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Distributed Energy
Reliability, Resiliency, Cost, and Climate Driving C&I Power Systems
Commercial and industrial (C&I) entities want to ensure they have electricity when they need it. Businesses also are looking at sustainability, decarbonization, and control of their energy costs as factors
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Solar
Vermont and ISO-New England Provide an Interesting Renewable Energy Transition Case Study
Vermont doesn’t get a lot of attention outside of Bernie Sanders, but the state’s power system is worth taking a look at as it has undergone a notable shift toward renewable energy. About 80% of
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Nuclear
Green Light for Project Pele, Defense Department’s Mobile Nuclear Microreactor Demonstration
The Department of Defense (DOD) will push forward on Project Pele, a much-watched mobile microreactor prototype, and demonstrate its full operation for a minimum of three years at an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site. The DOD’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) on April 15 formally released a record of decision (ROD) to proceed with the program, […]
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Press Releases
Amazon Extends Position as the World’s Largest Corporate Buyer of Renewable Energy
SEATTLE, Wash. (April 20, 2022) — Amazon today announced 37 new renewable energy projects around the world, marking significant progress on its path to power 100% of its operations with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. The new projects increase the capacity of Amazon’s renewable energy portfolio by nearly […]
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Distributed Energy
OhmConnect, Carrier, SunPower Collaborate to Support Grid Resiliency
A California company known for its residential energy management systems has announced it is collaborating with a provider of building energy solutions and a solar technology company to modernize energy infrastructure and provide support to the power grid. OhmConnect is an Oakland-based group that creates grid-connected homes to leverage energy storage, solar power, heating, cooling, […]
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Press Releases
Itron and Duke Energy Florida Collaborate to Deliver Managed EV Charging Program
Duke Energy Florida Will Use Itron’s DER Optimizer Solution to Monitor Residential EV Charging LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. — March 22, 2022 — Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), which is innovating the way utilities and cities manage energy and water, and Duke Energy Florida, which supplies electrical services to 1.9 million customers throughout Florida, are collaborating to […]
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Geothermal
Well-Constructed Solution: Geothermal to Power Bitcoin Mining
The mining of cryptocurrency, or bitcoin, is an energy-intensive process, and entrepreneurs are looking at several technologies—including innovative geothermal energy techniques—to power their operations. Among the latest is a service from a California-based renewable energy group, RenewaBit, which has joined with CeraPhi Energy, a Houston, Texas-based company, to produce geothermal energy with integrated crypto mining […]
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Press Releases
Mawson Infrastructure Group and Voltus Partner to Deliver a 100 Megawatt Virtual Power Plant to PJM in 2022
SAN FRANCISCO & BOSTON – February 2, 2022 – Voltus, Inc., the leading distributed energy resource (DER) software technology platform, and Mawson Infrastructure Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIGI) (“Mawson”), a global leading-edge digital asset infrastructure company, today announce plans to deliver 100 megawatts (MWs) of distributed energy resources to the PJM electricity grid in 2022. Mawson […]
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Solar
Lagunitas Brewing Co. Taps Big Savings Through Solar Conversion
By the time Lagunitas Brewing Co. began its conversion to solar power in 2017, it had grown to become one of the largest craft beer businesses in the U.S.—a far cry from the one-man, home-kitchen operation
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Commentary
Microgrids Can Save America’s Carbon-Zero Commitments and Electrified Future
On Friday, November 5, Congress passed a landmark infrastructure bill that apportions $65 billion to rebuilding our aging electric grid. Although we should applaud this long overdue measure, we need to be realistic about its impact. $65 billion is not nearly enough to modernize the U.S. electric grid, nor is it enough to protect against weather-related outages and cyberattacks. We continue […]
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Distributed Energy
A Win-Win-Win Solution for DER Owners, the Power Grid, and the Environment
New distributed energy resources (DERs) are being added to the power grid every day. However, DERs don’t automatically provide owners with the greatest value possible. In many cases, that requires the help of an aggregator, that is, a company that specializes in managing DERs owned by a pool of clients and optimizing performance of the […]
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Press Releases
Caterpillar Adds 1.5 MW Standby Power Node to Growing Portfolio of EPA-Certified, Fast Response Natural-Gas Generator Sets for Mission-Critical Applications
DEERFIELD, IL – Caterpillar Inc. today introduced the Cat® G3516 Fast Response generator set, adding a 1.5 MW power node to its growing lineup of natural-gas power solutions offering market-leading load acceptance, transient response and EPA certification for mission-critical applications. Available now in North America for 60 Hz applications, the Cat G3516 generator set adds […]
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International
Disorderly Transitions: Eight Enduring Global Power Sector Trends
While 2021 unfolded with some relief from the chaotic global pandemic that jolted the world in 2020, the year may be remembered for its extraordinary series of energy crises. After a cold snap prompted mass
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Distributed Energy
Caterpillar Extends Range of Containerized CHP Solutions that Lower Energy Costs, Increase Resiliency and Support Sustainability Initiatives
DEERFIELD, IL (Dec. 20, 2021) – Caterpillar Inc. today announced that it now offers new 1.5 MW and 2.0 MW power nodes in the company’s growing line of containerized combined heat and power (CHP) systems packaged in standardized, factory-assembled solutions. The solutions support strategic enterprise goals by reducing total energy costs, increasing energy resiliency, and […]
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Legal & Regulatory
The Billion-Dollar Bet on Electric Vehicles
President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on Nov. 15, which allocates $550 billion in new spending over the next five years to improve U.S. infrastructure, including critical investments in the energy sector. These investments will cover power grid infrastructure, electric vehicles (EVs) and charging stations, renewable energy, nuclear power, hydropower, and […]