Arizona’s largest utility, Arizona Public Service (APS) is in the process of developing a large data center microgrid -- 63-MW – with partner Aligned Data Centers, a subsidiary of Aligned Energy. The utility and pay-for-use data center provider are billing the project as a ‘next generation microgrid’ that will include a new 69-kV … [Read more...]
SimpliPhi Power is Ready to Tell its Story…And it’s a Good One
September 14, 2015 By
In an age where marketing often trumps substance, the energy storage company SimpliPhi Power seems to have it backwards. The company has spent years getting its battery technology right for the power industry before broadcasting its value to the world. “We’ve really wanted to perfect our technology so that when we were selling product and … [Read more...]
Quick Microgrid News: Minnesota Breaks Stereotype…No Harm from California Microgrid…More NY Prize Wins
June 4, 2015 By
In this week's microgrid news... A microgrid being installed at a data center is Minnesota is breaking the stereotype that the Midwest isn't a friendly place for combined heat and power (CHP). That’s the word from Justin Rathke, president of Vergent Power, the Capstone Turbine distributor for the Upper Midwest, New England and Eastern … [Read more...]
Cutting-Edge Microgrid Projects Still Popping up in the United States
May 27, 2015 By
Peter Asmus, of Navigant Research, profiles two cutting-edge microgrid projects in the U.S.: NJ TransitGrid on the East Coast and the Salem Smart Power Center on the West Coast. The current edition of Navigant Research’s Microgrid Deployment Tracker gives credence to the idea that the Asia Pacific region may emerge as the market leader over the … [Read more...]
Niobrara Energy Park, “World’s Largest Planned Microgrid,” Seeks Buyer
April 29, 2015 By
The much-watched 662-acre Niobrara Energy Park, which bills itself as the world's largest planned microgrid, is now shovel-ready and on the market. Cushman & Wakefield announced early Wednesday that it is acting as exclusive agent for the sale of the northern Colorado project, under development for five years by Colorado land and resouce … [Read more...]
Growing Microgrid Markets? An Energy Attorney’s View
April 19, 2015 By
Where and why are microgrid markets growing? Chad Marriott, an associate with Stoel Rives, Portland, who is an active member of the company's energy development team, says he's seeing interest first of all from industries with critical loads -- hospitals, for example. In addition, in the Pacific Northwest, certain types of energy-intensive … [Read more...]
Alstom: The New Grid Will be a Constellation of Community Microgrids
December 18, 2014 By
We tend to describe microgrids as a way to keep the lights on when storms strike. But increasingly microgrids, especially community microgrids, are becoming central to a larger economic and sociological shift to local energy. The trend could be world-changing, but it certainly will be industry-changing, especially for a company like Alstom, … [Read more...]
Causam Energy to Partner with SDF on Secure Node for Critical Infrastructure Protection Network
October 29, 2014 By
Causam Energy plans to partner with SDF Development (SDF) to construct a dedicated, secure facility for providing network, interconnection, monitoring and storage to enable critical infrastructure protection (CIP) for the Northern Virginia electric energy market. SDF is an entity formed by Thomas Darden and John Mazzarino, the co-founders and … [Read more...]
