The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe owns and operates the energy production of five scattered Community Solar for Community Action (CS4CA) arrays. Solar power is sold to utilities serving the Reservation. Each array’s designated meter “owner” tracks solar energy generation throughout the year and provides the revenue realized to the Leech Lake Energy Assistance Program …
Since 2002 Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe has accelerated its transition to a zero-carbon community, for its economic, environmental, health, and overall resilience benefits. Convenience stores are hubs and de facto meeting places in rural communities, fire trucks can refuel, EVs can re-charge. This site was chosen to test advanced technology in an underserved building sector and funded …
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Two former school properties were converted to LMI senior housing. Utilities are included in tenants’ rents which are lower due to geothermal HVAC, co-generation units, and on-site solar. However, because the roofs could not support solar PV the developers, AEG Solutions, designed a novel Solar Aquaponic Greenhouse. Among the innovations are a double-sided solar panel …
This 625-unit income-restricted apartment complex was a partnership among owner L+M, Demand Energy, and utility Con Edison. Fully occupied, the complex provides a model for how cities can integrate localized energy projects to boost affordability and create resilience. Ten residents completed the first 16-week on-site construction training course, built a youth clubhouse, and will receive …
What was once just a vision for Oahu’s homeless reached its 2-year anniversary in January 2020. This public private partnership provides permanent, affordable housing to 79 working families. In 2020, it’s anticipated the village will open its third and final housing phase and will welcome its 100th family before the summer. On-site case management from …
Wellhead’s Hybrid EGT products helps overcome operational challenges caused by intermittency in renewable generation. Supporting customer expectations to provide safe, reliable, affordable, and clean power while upgrading and modernizing the grid, each project not only reduces costs, it also cuts greenhouse gas (GHG) and particulate emissions up to 60% and each installation will save about …
Camus Energy is building Mimo, an open source software system, which is free for distribution grid operators. Mimo provides a grid edge orchestrator and uses machine learning algorithms to optimize whole ecosystems of distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time. It aligns demand with supply of intermittent renewables, and smooths load between day and night. Mimo provides a transactive energy …
Pintail Power’s large-scale, long-duration hybrid storage Liquid Salt Combined Cycle (LSCC) technology can deliver least-cost and best-fit solutions for integrating renewable energy with the utility grid to increase efficiency, capacity, flexibility, reliability, and utilization of grid and generation assets, cutting carbon immediately by 50%. By novel integration of thermal energy storage with gas turbines, the company’s …
This article appeared in Western Energy Institute’s magazine, Fall 2019 issue. The piece describes much of what is discussed in the Pathways section of this site. It describes how utilities can deliver on a low-carbon vision at a sustainable cost, while maintaining reliability in the face of extreme weather conditions. A fact-based, holistic approach that considers …
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In 2018, a yearlong collaboration process managed by DEFG LLC and the Low Income Energy Issues Forum involved over 100 stakeholder organizations examining which approaches make shared solar accessible to a wide range of low and moderate income communities .Judith Schwartz served as Lead Investigator, facilitator of the working group, and authored many of the …
