A milestone energy document released this week gives insight into how federal officials plan to shape the U.S. energy system. And yes, microgrids are very much a part of the plan. In the first-ever Quadrennial Energy Review, the Obama administration offered a multi-billion dollar roadmap for improving the nation’s oil, gas and electricity … [Read more...]
City of Hoboken Microgrid Symposium to be Held November 5
November 3, 2014 By
The City of Hoboken will hold a microgrid symposium at the Stevens Institute of Technology on November 5 to generate stakeholder interest in the technical, financial, and regulatory aspects of its microgrid project. The city of about 50,000 people was hard hit by Superstorm Sandy and vowed to build a more resilient electric grid. Hoboken then … [Read more...]
Microgrid Institute Team to Design Suburban Maryland Microgrids
September 17, 2014 By
A team led by Burr Energy (doing business as Microgrid Institute) will design, simulate, and test control systems for two suburban Maryland microgrids under a $1.2 million federal grant. The Microgrid Institute team expects to receive the funds over two years beginning in late 2014 for a microgrid in Olney, part of Montgomery County, and Ritchie … [Read more...]
DOE Awards $8M for Microgrid Projects in Seven States
September 8, 2014 By
Seven microgrid projects will receive more than $8 million in federal funding to help cities and towns better prepare for extreme weather, the Department of Energy announced today. The money will go to projects in Alaska, California, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Tennessee and Washington. The projects are being developed by Alstom Grid, Burr … [Read more...]
Cogeneration Goes Global
February 5, 2014 By
Sometimes what’s old becomes new again and cogeneration, which is more than 130 years old, is gathering momentum across the world. Combined heat and power (CHP), also known as cogeneration, is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat from a single fuel source, such as natural gas, biomass, biogas, coal, waste heat, or oil,” reports the … [Read more...]
New direction for that federal agency whose name I can’t remember
November 17, 2011 By
By Elisa Wood November 17, 2011 The US Department of Energy’s reputation is now enshrined as the agency that Republican presidential contender Rick Perry wants to dismantle – if only he could remember its name. But a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences offers a different direction for the federal agency, one that may not … [Read more...]
