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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 commissioning customer microgrids that consist of numerous resources, said Deb Erwin, manager of regul...

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. Ultimately, a strong balance sheet is required to develop projects, according to Chadwick. “You need i...

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 fuel, but are subject to the same kind of far-reaching calamities because of a single point of failure...

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 human condition. Awards are granted in three categories: Highest Recognition for a Microgrid Serving the...