Shyft Group Shows Off Its Blue Arc Electric Last Mile Delivery Vehicle To Customers

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:00:15 +0000

Shyft Group, formerly known as Spartan Motors, has nearly five decades of experience designing and building fleet vehicles of all shapes and sizes including half of all last mile delivery vehicles. These delivery vans are what you think of when you think about a standard FedEx or UPS delivery truck. In today’s dystopian pseudo post-COVID […]

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Infraco Africa & Equatorial Power To Roll Out Access To Clean Power & Agri-Processing In The DRC & Rwanda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:00:06 +0000

Equatorial Power’s business model integrates the delivery of productive energy with water purification, agri-processing services, business incubation and e-mobility. This is in line with its vision to provide universal access to productive electricity and clean water in a truly holistic approach centered around the customer and enabled by the latest technology. Equatorial’s website says, “We […]

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Changing The Business Model Of The Utility: Winning Allies (Interview With Henk Rogers Of Blue Planet Energy)

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 18:00:37 +0000

Recently, I had the great pleasure to sit down with one of my longtime heroes, Henk Rogers, a true climate champion, to talk about solar, storage, microgrids…all the good things. Rogers made hay in the gaming world, helping bring Tetris to the world, and then turned his attention to exploring what else was happening in […]

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Planning a Green Hydrogen Microgrid to Ditch Diesel

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:00:18 +0000

When we think of microgrids, we typically think of solar power, wind power, and battery energy storage systems. But there are all kinds of microgrid configurations and an ever growing variety of innovative technologies available to power and benefit from them. For example, in Austria, there’s a microgrid testbed that is used by researchers to […]

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Want Energy Resilience? Invest Locally In Community Solar, Rooftop Solar, Heat Pumps, EVs

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 23:00:46 +0000

Communities looking to build resilience in the face of worsening climate disasters will soon have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to better prepare themselves via new federal funding and incentives.

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Microgrids For Anyone

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 19:00:35 +0000

Communication-Less Scheme Streamlines Microgrid Setup, Simplifies Recovery During a power outage or after a disaster, it is hard to beat the simplicity of a diesel generator. Just supply fuel and start it up — so easy, anyone could do it. Renewable microgrids, on the other hand, are not so simple, with their suite of controls, […]

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CrossBoundary Energy Access & ENGIE Energy Access Sign Largest Mini-Grid Project Finance Transaction In Africa To Build $60M Of Mini-Grids In Nigeria

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:00:27 +0000

It’s 2022, and 600 million people in Africa still don’t access to electricity. About 50% of them live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. To ensure that universal access to affordable electricity is achieved by 2030, connections to over 70 million people will need to be added per […]

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Researchers Bring More Reliable Electricity to Puerto Rican Microgrids

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 01:49:58 +0000

Oak Ridge National Laboratory are partnering with local organizations, nonprofits and universities to build resilience into independent microgrids

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Slashing Commercial Emissions through Microgrids as a Service

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:13:23 +0000

Transportation as a Service (TaaS) is a concept most of us are familiar with — instead of buying your own car, you pay for people to transport you to where you want to go. (Uber — we’re talking about Uber.) We’re also all familiar with microgrids. In simple terms, they are small electricity grids. But […]

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