Category: Microgrids

Orcas Center in Eastsound, Washington has commissioned a solar and battery storage microgrid that keeps the performing arts venue operating during extended outages and turns it into a community resilience hub. The designation aligns with county Emergency Operations Center planning and addresses the island’s reliance on a single undersea transmission cable. The system combines a …

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Schneider Electric has brought together more than twenty partners, including Microsoft, AlphaStruxure, Sunrock, Zurich, and Arcadis, to speed deployment of community based resilient energy systems across the United States. The effort, called Accelerating Resilient Infrastructure, pairs standard designs with financing pathways, reportedly a pipeline of about 7.5 billion dollars, to help customers stand up microgrids …

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In August 2025, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) State Energy Office announced a $5 million initiative to deploy both permanent and mobile solar + battery microgrids across the state. The program is funded by the federal Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act, with support from regional partners including the Land of Sky Regional …

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RE+ is in full swing in Las Vegas. Across the general session and the expo, one theme keeps coming up: tech and platform providers are leaning into software driven aggregation, virtual power plants, portfolio controls, and grid services. Microgrids are the site level building blocks that make those portfolios dependable. Data center demand is the …

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Calistoga used to brace for Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) with rows of diesel trailers. This summer, the town’s Calistoga Resiliency Center (CRC)—a hybrid of lithium-ion batteries and hydrogen fuel cells—is taking over that role, engineered for about 48 hours of local backup with up to 8.5 MW of peak output. The big update: on …

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