The Anbaric Microgrid Strategy Cleantechnica, March 31, 2016. Image credit: Tama66 Entrepreneurial opportunities for microgrid operators Wakefield, Massachusetts-based Anbaric has grown into one of this nation’s microgrid innovators. The company has developed from scratch more than $1.5 billion in independent transmission projects to date. The company outlines its production and distribution strategy as follows: A microgrid is centered […]
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ComEd Plans a Microgrid Project for a Chicago Neighborhood
DOE Awards ComEd $4 Million for Renewable Technology T&D World Magazine, January 22, 2016. Image credit: Max Talbot-Minkin ComEd has received a $4 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative to design and deploy solar and battery storage technology within its planned microgrid demonstration project in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. This award will […]
Shuttered Coal Power Plants Find a Second Life
Gita Subramony for Zondits, August 16, 2014. Image credit: James St. John The EPA’s Clean Power Plan and competition from clean energy sources will likely cause approximately 30% of U.S. coal power plants to be shuttered over the next 5 years. That’s great for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, but it has the potential to […]
Building the Smart Cities of the Future Now
Amber Plante for Zondits, June 29, 2015. Image credit: WT Vox Engineers are looking to take the terabytes of data that are being collected each year and use them to build “smart cities” in which the various components – waste management, traffic sensors, law enforcement, transit, electricity, etc. – can “speak” to each other along […]
Philadelphia Navy Yard Selects Landis & Gyr to Install Smartgrid
The Navy Yard sets off toward its own ‘smart-grid’ power network Philly.com, May 12, 2015. Image credit: Robert J. Sitar via Wikimedia Commons Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp., the agency redeveloping the Navy Yard, is installing a “smart-grid” system on the 1,200-acre campus in South Philadelphia. PIDC envisions constructing an interconnected network of renewable power sources and storage […]
Hawaii Energy Selects Companies to Implement Efficiency Program
Hawaii Energy has selected Honeywell Smart Grid Solutions, Matrix Energy Services and Ibis Networks Inc. to help small businesses, restaurants, residents in smart-metered neighborhoods and schools save energy as part of a nearly $2 million program.
NY Electric Grid to Accommodate Clean Energy
Funding Supports Energy Highway Blueprint to Develop “Smart Grid” Technologies to Improve Power Flows, Promote Clean Energy and Lower Costs to Consumers