A new Department of Energy grant will help create the first "microgrid" in rural Iowa, transforming the generation and distribution of electricity in Montezuma, Iowa Iowa State University hopes rural ...

The sun shines through a bifacial solar array in October 2023 at the Alliant Energy Solar Farm in Ames, where Iowa State University researchers are researching what crops can be raised under the ...

A $150 million solar-plus-energy-storage microgrid project under construction on lands of the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians in Alpine received a big financial assist Friday from the U.S. Department ...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations will begin negotiations with United Power Inc. as it considers the utility for up to $6.1 million in grant funding from the ...

In an era where climate change has been gradually strengthening storms, Secaucus could be the place where, when storms of great magnitude strike, the lights will stay on at Town Hall, senior citizen ...

Boaz, Wis. — A microgrid project that stores electricity outside the grid will operate in a western Wisconsin village that has been hit by multiple outages over several years. Madison-based Alliant ...

A market-rate, subsidy-free solar-plus-storage microgrid in downtown Portland highlights how grid-forming buildings can overproduce clean power, island during outages and work around strict ...

The Board of Public Utilities is proposing a microgrid through potential Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships grant funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The grant request is for $12 ...

The construction of a natural gas powered microgrid is officially underway at Fort Campbell Kentucky. The microgrid project that will feature three two-megawatt natural gas generators was celebrated ...

Iowa State University hopes rural Iowa's first microgrid can provide more reliability and help communities recover from natural disasters more quickly. The U.S. Department of Energy announced last ...