In this webinar Microgrid Knowledge, PowerSecure, Miratech, and Volvo Penta will discuss debunking the myths of cost, complexity, and cleanliness of diesel technology.
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Susan Sanford Editor’s note: Susan Sanford, Executive Director of the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster, an initiative of business, government, academic and nonprofit leaders focused on accelerating the growth of the Research Triangle Region’s cleantech economy. RALEIGH — The Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC) recently hosted the first-ever Clean Tech Innovation Awards at the organization’s annual meeting of…
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Small microgrids don’t need to include large buildings to provide value. How a Residential Microgrid Can Earn Its Keep Beyond the Neighborhood For the burgeoning microgrid market, the sweet spot has been university, industrial and military applications. But now, the suitability of this advance in energy resilience is expanding, and residential neighborhoods are being eyed…
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A new farm microgrid in rural North Carolina is gaining traction as a model for future rural microgrids. PowerSecure, a Southern Company subsidiary, engineered, procured and constructed the microgrid. Download the full report. Power from pig manure may sound odd. But a Lillington, N.C. microgrid is showing how its done. In fact, the Butler Farms project is a…
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More and more, mission-critical enterprises are using microgrids with on-site power systems to ramp up energy reliability, efficiency and sustainability. Download the full report. Why? As technology advances, power outages are simply unacceptable at military bases, health-care facilities, data centers, distribution centers and more. A new report from PowerSecure, a subsidiary of Southern Company, points out that a…
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A Tampa, Florida ministries is ready for the next hurricane season — and the thousands of people it may need to feed and shelter — thanks to a new Power Secure microgrid. By Elijah Lovkoff/Shutterstock.com Working with PowerSecure and the Tampa Electric (TECO), Metropolitan Ministries Foundation late last week inaugurated a microgrid designed to enable the…
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COVID-19 is hitting the economy hard and companies that develop microgrids and other distributed energy resources (DERs) are not immune. But there are ways that utilities can help them — and several are. Courtesy of PixOne/Shutterstock.com Utilities have good reason to step up. Solar and other DERs are especially important during this crisis because they…
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COVID-19 has forced many people to work from home, making resiliency of energy supplies for data centers more important than ever. Derek Tugwell, vice president of data centers at PowerSecure, discusses how microgrids can help. What impact has COVID-19 had on data centers? Derek Tugwell, VP of data centers at PowerSecure Derek Tugwell: Cloud services are…
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Let’s say microgrid developer PowerSecure has been asked to price out the feasibility of a microgrid at a retail grocery store in Wisconsin.By txking/Shutterstock.com How does the developer go about finding the utility pricing information that will demonstrate that the project is or isn’t financially viable? The answer isn’t simple, said Brian Knight, structured finance…
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By Bryan Mims, WRAL reporter https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/wake-forest-company-helps-save-town-s-last-grocery-store/19109037/ RICH SQUARE, N.C. — In the tiny town of Rich Square in Northampton County, there is one, small grocery store. It has been a lifeline and source of comfort during the coronavirus crisis. But last month, the Rich Square Market almost faced another crisis. That storm in April gave store…
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