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  • Project of the Year 2017 voting: Utility-scale category

    Ameren Technology Application Center Champaign, Ill. | 1.4 MW (250 kW solar) The Ameren TAC microgrid integrated a range of DER assets and distributed intelligence to show the widespread capabilities of a utility-integrated microgrid. This deployment goes beyond resiliency, as it is capable of 15 use cases — an innovativeRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Project of the Year 2017 voting: Utility-scale category

    Ameren Technology Application Center Champaign, Ill. | 1.4 MW (250 kW solar) The Ameren TAC microgrid integrated a range of DER assets and distributed intelligence to show the widespread capabilities of a utility-integrated microgrid. This deployment goes beyond resiliency, as it is capable of 15 use cases — an innovativeRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • New England island switching from primarily diesel fuel to solar + storage microgrid

    Four hundred and fifteen years after hosting the first English trading settlement in New England, picturesque Cuttyhunk Island made new history this year, celebrating its first summer getting the majority of its electricity from a solar electric array that also charges an energy storage system for nighttime power. Throughout theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Case study: New solar, storage-powered air conditioning unit installed in Hawaii school

    Students at Hawaii’s Waialua High and Intermediate, on the island of O’ahu, are returning to school this year to solar PV and energy storage-powered air conditioned classrooms from project partners SimpliPhi Power, Ameresco Solar and Haleakala Solar. As part of the statewide Heat Abatement Program, schools in Hawaii can receiveRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Watch: New England farm installs the all-in-one solar SmartFlower

    Lavender Pond Farm, New England’s largest lavender farm, has installed a solar SmartFlower, the first all-in-one, plug and play photovoltaic solar system. Inspired by sunflowers and other phototropic plants that follow the sun across the horizon, the SmartFlower wakes up at sunrise, fans out its twelve solar “petals” to 194 squareRead More — Solar Builder magazine