In today's Quick Microgrid News, Navigant identifies the market for community resilience microgrids...ABB and Samsung strike a deal to develop microgrids...SunEdison places a big order with Imergy...The Burns Group microgrid project at Temple University wins an engineering award...The Clean Coalition wins a microgrid consultanting deal with … [Read more...]
Yep, Utilities Do Like Microgrids, Especially Public Power Utilities
Utilities do like microgrids, as we’ve said. And now Navigant Research has some data to back it up. A new report by Navigant finds that a small, but growing number of utilities see microgrids as a logical extension of their smart grid investments. This runs contrary to popular thinking that utilities fear microgrids as competition. A survey … [Read more...]
Con Edison to Meet the Energy Needs of a Changing City
Push aside your stereotype about Con Edison as a slow moving public utility Goliath, and meet an energy company determined to change how it operates. Con Ed, which serves the metropolitan New York area, is taking an innovative, cost savings approach to delivering dependable power that offers a glimpse into the future of what I predict all major … [Read more...]
Should New York Be Wary of Utility Monopolies in Distributed Energy?
Should New York let utilities both manage and compete in the distributed energy market the state is planning? That's one of the big questions the industry is debating in New York's “Reforming the Energy Vision,” or REV. The Department of Public Service last week confirmed its intent to let utilities act as the distributed grid operator in a … [Read more...]