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Distributed Generation

UAE Supports Renewable Energy Projects in Developing Countries

The UAE has been supporting and promoting renewable energy projects across developing countries, including financing sustainable clean energy projects in these …

Energy Storage Battery

How Energy Storage could Revolutionize Industries in the Next 10 Years

Over the last decade a surge in lithium-ion battery production has led to an 85% decline in prices, making electric vehicles and energy storage commercially via…

Distributed Generation

Trump Administration Says it will Approve Largest U.S. Solar Farm

Federal officials plan to approve a massive solar farm with energy storage in the desert outside Las Vegas, paving the way for a $1-billion project that will pr…

Oil & Gas Trade

New Dispute Over Oil Could Be Brewing Between Russia and Belarus

Moscow and Minsk have had several oil and gas rows over the past decade in what has been described as love-hate relationship between president Vladimir Putin an…

Offshore Wind Power

​Global Offshore Wind Market Will Hit 142 GW in A Decade

The global offshore wind market rise from 23.2GW at the end of 2018 to hit a cumulative capacity of 142 GW by 2030, according to new research. And the key playe…

Microgrid

What Will it Take to Boost Microgrid Markets to the Next Level?

Moving the microgrid market is an ambitious goal that will require policy changes, technology advances and a customer-centric approach, say several microgrid in…

Microgrid

Why Microgrids? The Evolving Energy Landscape

Concord Engineering Group’s Joe Sullivan walks readers through the evolving landscape that is bringing about energy independence. This shift involves a reshapi…

Microgrid

What Electrification of Transportation and Buildings Means to Microgrids

The energy industry is poised for what some describe as a sizable investment shift. Oil and gas lose, and power wins with the growing electrification of transpo…

Distributed energy

Distributed Energy Resources to Grow 15.9% CAGR

Basic economics, local electricity prices and government incentives are driving the growth of distributed energy resources, including microgrids and solar-plus-…

Microgrid

Is Load Flexibility the New Demand Response?

Demand response is reaching a saturation point, but load flexibility is emerging as its new iteration, a 2.0 that is much more powerful and could become a 200 G…

Distributed energy

PowerGen-E.ON Deal Boosts Microgrids, Minigrids, Micro-utilities in Africa

PowerGen Renewable Energy, a leading player in Sub-Saharan Africa’s fledgling, but fast growing markets for microgrids, minigrids and micro-utilities, acquired…

Oil&Gas Drilling

U.S. offshore rig count drops to 23

The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. slipped to 23 units over the last week, according to weekly rig count reports released by Baker Hughes on Friday, Decemb…

Solar Mini-Grid Brings Power to Yesagyo’s Community

Parami Energy connected 1442 households to the newly-launched mini-grid mid-December with plans to expand the coverage to more than 4000 households Magway’s Ye…

Distributed Generation

The Quick-Thinking, Self-Driving Energy Grid of the Future

A quick-thinking, self-driving energy grid of the future — an autonomous energy grid — is being developed by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Labo…

Distributed energy

Researchers Propose Floating Microgrids Made up of Electric Boats

Electric boats may enable floating microgrids that could serve islands that have historically been powered by fossil fuels, according to a report from researche…