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Impact of Microgrids
2013-10-28 18:15:00| Transmission & Distribution World
What will be the impact of the microgrid or the smart grid on our old grid during the next 10 years? read more
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Microgrids Threaten Utility Business
2013-10-21 19:59:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Microgrids are emerging as a credible threat to the dominance of Americas 100-year-old-plus utility monopoly. read more
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Microgrids Going Mainstream?
2013-10-01 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Thomas Edison's original vision of a power grid consisted of a network of ubiquitous and independent DC power generation. Then along came the lower cost-per-kilowatt of Tesla and Westinghouse's centralized AC grid, and the distributed model all but disappeared. Microgrids, the modern inheritors of Edison's distributed generation topology, remained a "fringe" power application for decades, seeing use primarily on islands, military bases, and isolated towns. Driven by lower relative costs, ...This story is related to the following:Electrical Equipment and Systems Sponsored by: Globtek Inc. - MOBILE BANNER ADSearch for suppliers of: Power Distribution Systems |
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Microgrids: Sandy Forced Cities to Rethink Power Supply
2013-09-10 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Hurricane Sandy and the havoc it wreaked on New York City and the rest of the Northeast in 2012 could prove to be a turning point in how people think about the way electricity is produced and distributed, particularly in storm-prone areas, with some states and cities starting to turn to what are known as microgrids. When Sandy roared ashore last October, it knocked out power for 8.5 million people, and kept more than 1.3 million people in the dark a week after the storm hit. It seared an image...
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Standard Solar to Install One of the Nations First Commercial Solar Micro-Grids
2013-07-03 19:04:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
Standard Solar and Solar Grid Storage recently partnered to install a grid-interactive energy storage system co-located with a new photovoltaic (PV) array, creating one of the nations first commercial scale micro-grids. read more
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