The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is seeking proposals for a district energy microgrid for 28 buildings with 6,300 people on 39 acres in Brooklyn. The microgrid will deliver heat, steam and electricity to part of the Red Hook neighborhood, which was pummeled during SuperStorm Sandy and lost eight steam plants. Called the Red Hook … [Read more...]
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New York City Seeks Developer for District Energy Microgrid
June 23, 2016 By Elisa Wood
Filed Under: Campus, CHP, District Energy, Editor's Choice, Google News Feed, Infrastructure, Markets, Microgrids, RFPs, Wires Tagged With: Microgrid Newsletter Article, New York City Housing Authority, NYCHA, Red Hook
Microgrids, Money and the Utility ‘Death Plunge’
March 13, 2014 By Elisa Wood
This is the second part of our coverage on microgrids from last week’s Northeast Sustainable Energy Association BuildingEnergy 14 conference in Boston. Read Part I here. If distributed generation is accelerating the utility death spiral – as some say – will microgrids cause a total utility plunge? That’s the question Galen Nelson, director of … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Demand Response, Grid, Solar Plus Storage, Thermal Tagged With: Acuity Power Group, Anbaric Holding, Boston Innovation District, Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority, Ed Krapels, Galen Nelson, Genevieve Sherman, Leonard Loomans, Long Island Power Authority, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, microgrid, New York City Housing Authority, Niobrara Data Center Energy Park, Northeast Sustainable Energy Association BuildingEnergy 14, Superstorm Sandy, utility death spiral, Weekly Newsletter Recent Articles