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Babcock Ranch solar array. FPL image. George Harvey The sun doesn’t always shine, but so what? It doesn’t prevent solar power and batteries from providing electricity 24/7 during a hurricane that shut down the grid in Florida. The big thermal plants just could not deliver electricity on the failed grid. […] The Solar Sea Can Solution by Great Canadian Solar is a highly mobile, compact and flexible off-grid solar energy system for any remote power requirements. Image: Great Canadian Solar Green Energy Times Staff There are lots of reasons to have mobile solar systems complete with batteries. They can supply electricity when […] ASHREA Presents – All About Microgrids December 19, 5-9pm, Common Man, Concord We are at the front end of a major evolutionary change in how energy systems interact. Instead of individual systems—buildings, utilities, the transportation sector, and the industry sector—it’s becoming one system, and buildings are going to play a central role in that new […] News of a Groundbreaking Design for a Community Microgrid A gathering at the solar stage in downtown Warner, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of Neil Nevins. By George Harvey Warner, New Hampshire, has not yet built its microgrid. It has not yet installed any of its hardware. In fact, it has not […] The forests around Utuado, Puerto Rico, were largely destroyed by the storm. US Department of Agriculture Photo, Master Sgt. Joshua DeMotts | 1st Combat Camera Squadron By George Harvey I last posted on the Green Energy Times website about the work Joseph Mangum was doing in Puerto Rico in “Joseph’s First […] East Pyne Hall, Princeton University. Photo by Andreas Praefcke, Wikimedia Commons By George Harvey In 1996, Princeton University replaced its old coal-fired heating plants, which had been around since the 1920s, moving to natural gas as a fuel source. This was not a simple change, however, as it had a set […] By Eric Wallace Distributed Energy Resources Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are a growing part of the energy landscape in the United States, and they are becoming an ever more attractive opportunity for households, companies, and building owners to gain control of their own energy needs. By 2024, it is estimated that solar PV […] Tesla Makes Helping Puerto Rico Job One! The New Tesla Semi-Truck could very likely change the world’s transportation system. Photo: nikolamotor.com By George Harvey Tesla’s Elon Musk was all set to unveil the new Tesla Semi-Truck at an event scheduled to take place on October 26 at the Design Center in […] Saves Customers $200,000 in Just One Hour by Reducing Peak Power Demand Colchester, Vt – Green Mountain Power’s Stafford Hill Solar Farm in Rutland, one of the nation’s first micro-grids powered solely by solar and battery back-up, is now the first in the region to use battery storage to reduce peak power usage, benefiting customers […] By George Harvey The Brattleboro, Vermont Energy Committee recently formed an Integrated Energy Systems subcommittee with the purpose of investigating such solutions as microgrids and the technologies that might be used with them. A microgrid is a system that has its own generating and storage capacity, with a potential to operate independently of the […] |
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