Tag: microgrids

  • UL Solutions adds Frequency Regulation Modeling to battery system design tool

    UL Solutions released the new 1.0 version of HOMER Front software, adding expanded performance and financial forecasting capabilities for designing complex utility-scale energy storage, solar, wind and hybrid systems. Battery energy storage system (BESS) stakeholders can model most electricity markets worldwide, including frequency regulation, capacity markets, real-time energy markets, and contractual power purchase agreements with……

  • Schneider Electric, Mainspring Energy promote new hybrid energy microgrid solutions

    At the annual CERAWeek Conference, Schneider Electric and Mainspring Energy announced that they are partnering to offer a new hybrid-energy technology that combines Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Microgrid Solution and turn-key design-build services with Mainspring’s Linear Generator. The combination provides power and fuel-flexibility as well as energy resiliency for commercial and industrial customers, such as data……

  • Plus Power raises $1.8 billion for standalone storage buildout | Solar Financing Spotlight

    Plus Power has secured $1.8 billion in new financing for standalone battery storage, including the largest single such project financing to date, to help stabilize the U.S. electrical grid while incorporating more solar and wind energy. Read more about this and other financing news in our Solar Financing Spotlight. Plus Power’s major funding announcement includes……

  • Vote: Solar Microgrid Project of the Year 2023

    Here are the Solar Microgrid nominees for the 2023 Solar Builder Project of the Year Awards, sponsored by Aurora Solar. Seize opportunities to grow your solar business & your career today. Learn more here. The form is at the bottom of the page. You are allowed to vote once per day from now until Saturday, Oct. 7……

  • HOMER Grid now estimates EV charging station ROI

    With the rapid rise of EVs, energy project developers and engineering firms need better ways to evaluate a proposed charging station’s costs, revenue and performance in the project feasibility stage. “It’s not as easy as deciding to add EV charging to your parking lot and doing it,” says Parangat Bhaskar, product manager, HOMER Software, UL……