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/PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights examines the public policy and technology drivers accelerating the adoption of commercial and industrial...
The basic purpose of a microgrid is to island the user facility — be it a hospital or fire station — from the utility grid when brown-outs or black-outs are at play (which are becoming more common). While the regulated utilities claim a need for state approval for billions of dollars worth of grid improvements to avoid these outages — both planned and unplanned — such improvements, if approved, are not likely to be evenly distributed. Utility grid “investments are unlikely to be made in areas with low population density but that are likely high risk for outages. This type of situati...
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...
4 weeks ago Market competition continues to intensify as acquisitions increase and large established players revise offerings and business models BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AI–A new Leaderboard report from Guidehouse Insights examines the strategy and execution of 16 microgrid controls vendors, with Schweitzer Engineering Labs (SEL), Schneider Electric, and Siemens ranked as the leading market players. Microgrid controls platforms are considered the gateway technology for microgrids to be mainstreamed. Controls unlock value and are an important tech...
2020 was one for the books in the energy industry — and just about every industry — rocked by the beginnings of a global pandemic early in the year, followed by an unmatched hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico and rampant wildfires in California. Top Industry Perspective columns for 202o Artur Szczybylo/Shutterstock.com Energy reliability became more crucial in a year full of unknowns, not to mention power outages. Enter right: innovative energy technology. Experts from microgrid companies like CleanSpark, Ameresco, Schneider, S&C Electric and Concord Engineering explored the latest mi...