Microgrids

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Titanium Metals Corporation, better known as Timet, is constructing a new factory on the site of a former aluminum smelter in West Virginia.…

From ISSUE 12 – 2022When Hurricane Fiona made landfall in Puerto Rico on Sept. 18, it was a Category 1 storm that lacked the brute force winds of the Category 4 Hurricane Maria, which battered the island in 2017. Maria resulted in the…

When Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico in 2017, winds snapped trees and destroyed homes, while heavy rains transformed streets into rivers. But after the storm passed, the human toll continued to grow as residents struggled without…

Andy Tang, Wärtsilä’s VP of energy storage and optimization, sat down with me for a CleanTech Talks episode a few weeks ago. This second half of our wide-ranging conversation includes conversations about major island microgrids in the…

In the second half of this episode of CleanTech Talk, I speak with serial successful entrepreneur Bill Nussey. He recently published a book, Freeing Energy: How Innovators Are Using Local-Scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global…

Courtesy of RMI.By Max Lainfiesta, Nathaniel Buescher, & Michael Liebman Income inequality is palpable on the streets of the United States in cities and towns alike. On one block you may have neighborhoods with maintained…

Australia is one of the leaders in the world in the adaptation of electrical power grids to the new technologies of renewable energy. Famous for the Hornsdale Power Reserve (Tesla’s Big Battery in South Australia), the country is now…

Two announcements this week show that larger renewable energy developers, particularly large-scale solar developers, are looking to expand their operations into smaller-scale project development. Global renewable energy developer BayWa…

The new edition of our “Top 5 Microgrid News” features microgrids on islands, at office and university buildings as well as small communities. This edition covers projects in the United Emirates, USA, UK and Switzerland. The featured…

As Queenslanders ready to head to the polls, the Clean Energy Council has reminded all parties about the economic opportunity presented by the state’s solar and wind resources. July 24, 2020 Marija MaischThe Clean Energy Council (CEC) sees…