What is a microgrid and how does it work? New portable units allow you to “island” home energy for off-the-grid security. No, we’re not talking about miniature cooking pans for making tiny pancakes!

Sustainable Ramona is a local group dedicated to the preservation of our surroundings. By responding to your questions each month, we intend to provide you with common-sense, affordable, short- and ...

Microgrids have long been viewed as bespoke energy systems mostly deployed by universities, hospitals, and corporations ...

As more renewable energy sources and battery storage units are specified and incorporated into power systems, consultant specifying engineers are faced with many challenges that could impact the ...

When a community needs resilience, it’s important that developers, designers and equipment providers slow down and do their ...

Elisa Wood, writing for Microgrid Knowledge notes that both microgrids and iPhones have a number of similarities. Both are small, yet capable of doing a lot. She writes, “just as an iPhone is a phone ...

On Saturday, people across the globe will roll up their sleeves to help save the environment in honor of Earth Day. Whether that's planting a tree, or cleaning up neighborhoods. One local neighborhood ...

The site in Arlington will be a test lab of ideas, as the PUD figures out the future of electricity. ARLINGTON — Solar power, batteries, cars that can charge buildings, a self-sustaining energy grid.

The sun shines through a bifacial solar array in October 2023 at the Alliant Energy Solar Farm in Ames, where Iowa State University researchers are researching what crops can be raised under the ...

An August wildfire cut off electricity to Del Norte County, California. Residents might have been in the dark for weeks—except for the use of a makeshift microgrid that generated power locally. The ...