What is a microgrid and how does it work? New portable units allow you to “island” home energy for off-the-grid security. No, we’re not talking about miniature cooking pans for making tiny pancakes!

Sustainable Ramona is a local group dedicated to the preservation of our surroundings. By responding to your questions each month, we intend to provide you with common-sense, affordable, short- and ...

Microgrids have long been viewed as bespoke energy systems mostly deployed by universities, hospitals, and corporations ...

As more renewable energy sources and battery storage units are specified and incorporated into power systems, consultant specifying engineers are faced with many challenges that could impact the ...

Elisa Wood, writing for Microgrid Knowledge notes that both microgrids and iPhones have a number of similarities. Both are small, yet capable of doing a lot. She writes, “just as an iPhone is a phone ...

The site in Arlington will be a test lab of ideas, as the PUD figures out the future of electricity. ARLINGTON — Solar power, batteries, cars that can charge buildings, a self-sustaining energy grid.

According to its government, Canada has more than 630 Indigenous and nearly 300 remote communities, with many more in the U.S., Australia and other countries around the world. For the Indigenous and ...

On Saturday, people across the globe will roll up their sleeves to help save the environment in honor of Earth Day. Whether that's planting a tree, or cleaning up neighborhoods. One local neighborhood ...

The sun shines through a bifacial solar array in October 2023 at the Alliant Energy Solar Farm in Ames, where Iowa State University researchers are researching what crops can be raised under the ...

A microgrid is a discrete energy system consisting of distributed energy resources, such as solar panels, wind turbines, backup generators, and battery storage systems, and loads capable of operating ...

Peninsula Clean Energy plans a 100% solar-powered community microgrid to provide resilience to the town of Pescadero that ...