When Superstorm Sandy blacked out a large swath of the Eastern seaboard for days in 2012, a few islands of light stood out. Co-generation facilities at New York University, Princeton University and ...

Six times during the previous year the local utility supplying power to a large soap manufacturing plant in the Midwest suffered power outages, shutting down the plant’s production lines. Each time ...

The Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference presents “Power to the People: Distributed Generation & Microgrids” on Thursday December 2 from 11AM-7PM at PG&E Headquarters in San Francisco. You’ll gain ...

Is it more efficient for electricity to be centrally generated before sending it over high-powered transmission lines or is it better for the power to be produced onsite and then delivered by ...

The transition toward decentralized energy systems is supported by advances in microgrid technology and energy storage, which is accelerating the adoption of distributed generation. The integration of ...

Remote communities have become testing grounds for innovative power projects. These areas traditionally have been powered by fossil fuel generation, usually diesel fuel or oil and sometimes natural ...

A smarter electric infrastructure is being imagined for the nation. One key technology supporting a smarter electric grid is the microgrid, which is a localized version of the electric grid which can ...

MIDLAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ProPetro Holding Corp. (PUMP) is pleased to announce that its PROPWR℠ division has executed a contract to provide turnkey power ...

In the early days of telecom deregulation, it was said that customers learned BYOB (Be Your Own Bell). In today’s energy environment, the acronym could be BYOE — “Be Your Own Edison.” With the ...

Until recently, the small village of Boaz, Wisconsin, U.S., with a population of 156, perhaps was best known as the location where a 12,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found in 1897. Fast-forward ...