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Microgrids Aren’t What They Used To Be
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Microgrids Aren’t What They Used To Be
Microgrids have always been hard to define succinctly because they are not really just one thing. They can morph to serve a variety of energy needs. Veteran energy journalists Lisa Cohn and Peter Asmus describe how they’ve evolved.
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Disaster Where a Microgrid Expert Lives
Rory McIlmoil, a researcher at NREL and a local volunteer firefighter, found himself cleaning up from Hurricane Helene and thinking about how much easier it would be with a microgrid.
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Data center guru Rich Miller interviews Elisa Wood about data centers and onsite power.
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What are Microgrids Now?
What are microgrids now? By definition, microgrids have not changed, but their value proposition is evolving with the times.
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Asset Manager Adds Microgrid Investment Fund in Bullish Australian Market
Australia’s microgrid market — poised to nearly triple by 2030 — attracts new private equity investment for commercial microgrids.
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Politics Rears Its Ugly Head Following Spain’s Power Outage
The arcane concept of “grid inertia” is suddenly making headlines following Spain’s power outage.
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What Do All Big Power Outages Have in Common? A Big Grid
The Iberian Peninsula grid outage underscores the vulnerabilities of centralized grids and reinforces the need for more decentralized energy.