How microgrids can help communities adapt to wildfires
Griffith Park brush wildfire and the Woolsey fire in California. Credit: Jorge Villalba/iStock…
Browsing Tag
microgrids
Cyclone Gabrielle: How microgrids could help keep the power on during extreme weather…
This illustration shows a typical grid-connected microgrid. Credit: Soheil Mohseni and Alan Brent, CC BY-SA.…
Researchers embrace uncertainty to make microgrids better
The new model uses an artificial neural network to predict variations and uncertainty in the supple of renewable…
Researchers bring more reliable electricity to Puerto Rican microgrids
Solar panels installed on commercial buildings create independent microgrids in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Researchers at…
Tata Power bets on microgrids for rural power supply in India
Manoj Gupta has spent the past two years bouncing along the dusty roads of rural India, looking at solar panels.The veteran of 107-year-old Tata Power, one of India’s oldest and…
Are microgrids the future of disaster recovery? It might be worthwhile to invest in…
The power grid is one of those technical marvels that we largely take for granted. Just as gasoline flows reliably and cheaply on nearly every street corner, and we can call…
Floods left thousands without power. Microgrids could help communities weather the…
The 2019–2020 bushfires left towns in East Gippsland without power for weeks. Credit: Shutterstock…
Microgrids and solar reduce risk of power outages
Credit: CC0 Public Domain
Climate change is fueling more floods, droughts, wildfires, and…
Are microgrids a key to grid resiliency?
Conventional methods for designing microgrids could result in a 30% power shortfall during emergencies if extreme…