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The Royal Mint at Llantrisant in Wales plans to install a local energy center — a microgrid — after signing a tender agreement with Infinite. 

Microgrid 2021 panelists discuss new strategies to hasten microgrid adoption in remote regions of Alaska, Africa and Cambodia.

Microgrids can be carbon-free or fully reliable, but generally not both. Experts at Microgrid 2021 look at balancing microgrid goals.

By Olivier Le Moal/Shutterstock.com The funding is from the agency’s Resilient Maryland program, which aims to help eligible organizations and governmental entities set up microgrids, resiliency hubs, resilient facility power systems and advanced combined heat and power (CHP) systems. “Maryland continues to lead by example, providing funding to help Maryland communities and organizations address energy resiliency through the use of cleaner and renewable energy options,” Maryland Gov. Lar...

Can all microgrids be 100% renewable, 100% reliable and still affordable? This week Microgrid 2021 delves into the charged topic.

Xcel Energy is launching a resiliency-as-a-service pilot for its commercial and industrial customers, with Xcel paying for 90% of the behind-the-meter microgrid costs upfront, getting paid back by the microgrid users over 10 years, and excluding the costs of the program from the rate base. Xcel partnered on a microgrid at Panasonic’s headquarters in Colorado. Photo courtesy of Xcel Energy. The Wisconsin Public Service Commission May 13 approved the plan (Docket 4220-TE-106), which involves co...

FCEL earnings call for the period ending March 31, 2021.

By Rei Imagine/Shutterstock.com After launching in the United Kingdom, GI Energy started its US operations in 2011 with headquarters in Chicago. The company expanded from its initial focus on geothermal heat pumps into fuel cells, battery storage, microgrids and, more recently, batteries combined with solar as well as reciprocating engines for co-generation, said Tom Chadwick, Endurant CEO. “What we found was we were an integrated house with one big gap, and that was capital,” he said. Ulti...

By Heidi Besen/Shutterstock.com Somewhere far off in another country, a hacker infiltrated a US energy company, crippling a fuel supply line that runs 5,500 miles from New York to Texas and leaving me, like others, unsure if I’d make it home from work on the gasoline left in my tank. It is an example of the vulnerability of sole reliance on big energy.  Electric grids are the big energy equivalent of the fuel line on the power side of the energy industry. They carry electricity instead of fu...

Microgrid Knowledge has released the names of the six finalists for this year’s Microgrid Greater Good Awards. From the six finalists, three winners will be chosen and announced June 1, as part of Microgrid 2021: The World Awakens to Microgrids, a free virtual conference that has attracted several thousand participants from across the globe. Now in its third year, The Microgrid Greater Good Awards celebrate microgrids that fulfill a clear societal need and show how microgrids improve the huma...