3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (721+ words) As the New Orleans City Council prepares to take up a program to install backup batteries in hundreds of homes, businesses and community institutions, advocates of the initiative gathered Wednesday outside City Hall to emphasize the importance of the plan…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (161+ words) The point of those upgrades is to prevent millions of outage minutes each year. A new battery microgrid in Trenton, Florida, could keep the lights on for 1,500 customers when the main grid goes down. For residents in hurricane-prone parts of…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (182+ words) Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (915+ words) Today’s geared-up soldiers, vehicles, and weapons require more mobile power than ever before, and they need power systems that run without the giveaway noise and heat signatures of diesel generators, and don’t require dangerous, expensive fuel transportation convoys. Don’t just…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (205+ words) Ameren Illinois is working with Illinois State University to advance energy workforce development through the development of a small-scale Microgrid Learning Lab. The learning lab is designed to give students hands-on experience with technologies shaping the future of the electric…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (518+ words) No man is an island (at least that’s what John Donne said in 1624). But in the face of blackouts and an electric grid that’s never quite as reliable as we’d like, it’s sometimes wise to become an island of electricity…...