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 … Continue reading →
Green Energy Times Staff There are lots of reasons to have mobile solar systems complete with batteries. They can supply electricity when the grid is down, or where there is no grid at all, and they can supply it on … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
News of a Groundbreaking Design for a Community Microgrid 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 even identified where its first installations will go. … Continue reading →
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 Two Days in Puerto Rico.” It appeared on October 31, with news of his work … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Tesla Makes Helping Puerto Rico Job One! 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 Hawthorne, California. While … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →