Fluence acquires Advanced Microgrid Solutions, in bid to help customers monetize storage, renewable assets
“Storage is the first truly digital asset that you can put on the electric network. That means the smarter we are with digital, the better job we can do powering the electric network,” Brett Galura, CTO at Fluence said, declining to disclose the acquisition’s price tag.
Clean energy funding roundup: minigrids, nanogrids, microreactors and batteries
Investors continue to invest and clean energy entrepreneurs continue to innovate — despite, or because of, global setbacks.
Women entrepreneurs are essential to last-mile distribution of renewable energy technologies
A new fund has been launched to provide microgrants of $3,000 to $10,000 to the women entrepreneurs and community organizations working to provide clean, reliable and primarily off-grid power to remote communities.
Can community microgrids fill the gap in California’s plans for 100% renewable energy?
A 10 MW, 40 MWh storage project on the Southern California coastline could provide the first link for a string of community microgrids that, according to the Clean Coalition’s Craig Lewis, could show that high penetrations of distribution-connected solar are entirely doable.
Solar-centric and storage-centric approaches to DC coupling PV and batteries
Alencon’s new white paper outlines the differences between PV-centric and battery-centric coupling.
Think we can’t place a value on resilience? Think again
A new critical load tiering approach solves the elusive value-of-resilience challenge and facilitates the proliferation of solar-driven microgrids.
EnerVenue looks to shake up the battery market with metal hydrogen technology
The company launched today with $12 million in seed funding, boasting advantages over lithium-ion in performance, price, operability in extreme weather and decades of use in the aerospace industry.
Morning Brief: What the heroin industry can teach us about solar power, plus Illinois community solar
Also in the brief: Joe Biden’s $2 trillion plan, APS details cause of battery fire and explosion
The U.S. installed more microgrids in 2019 than ever before
While then vast majority of microgrid projects are still for distributed fossil generation, the share of renewable microgrids is rising, driven by high-volume adopters, like The Red Cross.
Morning Brief: 294 MW Muscle Shoals solar project sold to Ørsted
Also in the brief: American solar supplier Aptos Solar added to Loanpal’s approved list, second life EV batteries for use in a microgrid, Maxeon upsizes convertible note offering
