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Re: Microgrids
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 25, 2018, 5:11 pm
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[center]Finding Island Grid Resilience with Advanced Software
Systems[/center]
April 23, 2018
By Jennifer Delony Associate Editor
resilience
Grid operators on the islands of O'ahu and Puerto Rico are
working with advanced software providers to help them understand
how their transmission and distribution systems function with
increasing amounts of distributed energy resources (DER), as
they seek a cleaner, more resilient power infrastructure.
Hawaiian Electric Co. on April 18 said it will collaborate with
Toronto, Ontario-based Opus One Solutions to integrate and
manage increasing levels of customer energy resources on the
O'ahu grid.
According to the companies, Opus One’s GridOS Dynamic Hosting
Capacity software will help Hawaiian Electric system operators
understand the level of DERs that can be accommodated on a
feeder line in near real-time to optimize grid assets and DERs,
while maintaining reliable service.
“Opus One Solutions reduces the need for significant
infrastructure upgrades by leveraging the value of DERs to the
grid, while also accommodating the interest for increased DER
penetration,” Joshua Wong, president and CEO of Opus One, said
in a statement.
About one-third of O'ahu’s single-family homes already use
private rooftop solar.
In Puerto Rico, where full power has not been restored since
hurricanes hit the main island in September 2017, Puerto Rico
Electric Power Authority (PREPA) will get help from software
that simulates large-scale DER integration in an effort to
modernize its grid.
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[center]Wind Farm in Puerto Rico[/center]
PREPA on April 17 entered into a memorandum of understanding
with the New York State Smart Grid Consortium (NYSSGC) and
ProsumerGrid, Inc., to assist with Puerto Rico’s long-term grid
planning efforts.
“Redesigning and modernizing Puerto Rico’s electric system will
go well beyond rebuilding the previously existing grid
infrastructure or randomly adding more renewable resources,” Jim
Gallagher, executive director of NYSSGC, said. “There are a
number of complex and structural issues that must be addressed
to support strategic resiliency, economic, and environmental
objectives.
Atlanta-based ProsumerGrid said it will use its Distributed
System Operator (DSO) Simulation Studio to provide integrated
simulation capabilities for the island transmission and
distribution system with large amounts of DERs and smart grid
subsystems, such as microgrids, aggregators, and consumers who
both produce and consume energy.
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[center]Oriana Solar Farm, a 45 megawatt (MW) AC (58 MW) solar
power plant in Isabela, Puerto Rico is the largest solar power
plant in the Caribbean.[/center]
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Re: Microgrids
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 23, 2018, 7:59 pm
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[center]Being A “B Corp” Also Benefits Green Mountain Power’s
Bottom Line[/center]
July 23rd, 2018 by John Farrell
Originally published at ilsr.org.
For most businesses, profit is the bottom line. Conventional
wisdom suggests that concerns about social and environmental
impacts, though well-intended, can distract from a public
company’s legal obligation to reward shareholders.
But if this conventional wisdom were true, Vermont’s Green
Mountain Power ought to be lagging behind its investor-owned
electric utility peers. Instead, since the utility company was
certified as a benefit corporation (B Corp) in 2014, Green
Mountain Power has found financial success while maintaining
social and environmental sustainability: a triple bottom line.
To become a B Corporation, a company must meet the environmental
and social standards of the non-profit group B Lab. On its B
Impact Report, Green Mountain Power qualified with especially
high scores in its workplace and environmental performance.
[center]Green Mountain Power Today[/center]
Despite engaging in conventionally “poor” business practices,
the following charts show that Green Mountain Power’s net income
is still growing, and even outpacing peers in the utility
industry. The first chart shows Green Mountain Power’s income
growth, the second shows how it is outpacing investor-owned
utility peers, based on an index of investor-owned utilities as
tracked by the Edison Electric Institute.
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What has kept business profitable for Green Mountain Power as a
B-Corp?
Since we interviewed Green Mountain Power CEO Mary Powell for
our Local Energy Rules podcastin 2016, the company has started
several new initiatives.
[center]Green Power timeline[/center]
June 2016
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[center]Off-Grid Package
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Green Mountain Power offers an Off-Grid package, where with a
combination of rooftop solar and storage, customers become
energy independent from the utility company. Creating a
microgrid lowers prices for customers by reducing maintenance
costs and softening the demand for … Read More
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August 2017
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[center]Recertification As A [color=teal]Benefit
Corporation[/color][/center]
Three years after first being certified as a B Corp, Green
Mountain Power received a recertification from B Labs for
upholding commitments to transparency, community, their
employees, their customers, and the environment.
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December 2017
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[center]Middlebury Service Center Low-Income Solar Array
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This solar array, built in partnership with Suncommon Solar, is
part of an initiative to make solar accessible to people with
low-to moderate-income. Half of this solar array is reserved for
Green Mountain Power customers who are at, or below, … Read More
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February 2018
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[center]Named #1 Innovative Company In The Energy
Sector[/center]
Fast Company Media named Green Mountain Power as the #1 most
innovative energy company in their 2018 report.
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April 2018
[center]Recognition For Energy Storage Leadership[/center]
The Smart Electric Power Alliance ranked Green Mountain Power as
#10 in the country for most energy storage installed per year
and total installed per customer.
[center]Future of Green Mountain Power[/center]
Four years is short time within the business cycle to make any
strong conclusions, but Green Mountain Power continues to prove
that valuing people and planet, along with profit, can be
profitable for an electric utility.
The company isn’t stopping, either. In early 2018, Green
Mountain Power advanced a plan to halve their current greenhouse
gas emissions.
Despite Green Mountain Power’s success, no other utilities have
followed suit. But if utility CEOs want a business model that
can combine customer service with profitability, this Vermont
company may be a model to follow.
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For more on Green Mountain Power and how it became a Benefit
Corporation, see our podcast from Local Energy Rules or this
post about GMP’s history and process of becoming a B Corp.
This article originally posted at ilsr.org. For timely updates,
follow John Farrell or Marie Donahue on Twitter or get the
Energy Democracy weekly update. Also check out over 50 episodes
of the Local Energy Rules podcast!
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Re: Microgrids
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 30, 2018, 6:50 pm
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[center]Sonnen Demonstrates The Power Of Solar + Storage
Microgrids In Puerto Rico
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July 30th, 2018 by Kyle Field
Sonnen was one of the early movers to take its resources and
solutions on the road to solve the problems caused by Hurricane
Maria in Puerto Rico, committing to bring 15 microgrid systems
to the island.
Sonnen just announced that it has installed the 11th such
system, in the mountainous Lares region of Puerto Rico. The
system combines solar and a sonnen smart energy storage system
that maintains the balance of generated power and incoming solar
generation. The new system was installed in an abandoned school
that has since been repurposed to provide housing for 14
families that lost their homes last year in Hurricane Maria.
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Centros de Apoyo Mutuo led the effort to repurpose the school,
which had been shuttered since 2014, as a shelter, which
resulted in the 14 classrooms being converted to apartments for
displaced families. The new sonnen microgrid servicing the
school also provides power to a disaster relief and recovery
center at the school, which provides support to the broader
community on the longer journey to recover from the hurricane.
The repurposed school has become a beacon of light and hope for
the community as a passionate group of local leaders aspires to
open Puerto’s Rico’s first solar-powered café and theater at the
school. This is a beautiful example of how restoring the base
needs of a community can, at the same time, open the eyes of an
entire generation to the potential of new energy technologies.
The potential of solar and storage is only now starting to be
realized and the power of the combined technologies is even
larger for communities lacking stable power from a local grid.
“The residents of Puerto Rico, despite insurmountable
challenges, have shown great strength and resolve in the face of
adversity. Lares is an incredible example of harnessing
available resources to establish sustainable practices that will
serve the community for years to come,” said Adam Gentner,
sonnen’s Director of Business Development, Latin American
Expansion. “The adoption of solar + storage to aid in Puerto
Rico’s disaster relief and recovery is another example of
implementing energy independent solutions that will aid the
island and its communities regardless of what energy challenges
they face in the future.”
The microgrid installed in Lares is comprised of a smart energy
storage system that makes use of a sonnenBatterie eco 8
(4kw/8kWh) and eco 16 (8kW/16kWh), which was paired with a 9kW
rooftop solar system provided by local partner and installer
Pura Energía. The two batteries were initially deployed to
Puerto Rico to provide short-term relief at another microgrid
site before being installed in its permanent location in Lares.
The ability for solar-plus-storage microgrids to be rapidly
installed after a disaster should be seen as a lesson to all
first responder agencies going into any region affected by a
disaster. It is a much more robust solution than relying on
traditional generators that need a constant supply of gasoline
or diesel to continue operations. Here in well developed
Southern California, first responders, followed by the
inevitable churn of insurance companies and financial
institutions, were quick to bring out mobile trailers and tents
supported by obnoxious diesel generators that showed just how
behind the times they were.
“The recovery needs throughout Puerto Rico are constantly
changing and by repurposing the sonnenBatterie units from the
prior La Perla and Loiza sites, we are able to adapt to the
long-term needs of the island and its residents,” said Gentner.
Solar-plus-storage isn’t just cheaper, it also allows for
one-way shipments, where companies can send down a portable
microgrid system and follow sonnen’s lead in donating the system
to a local non-profit, community center or government to avoid
the non-value add return shipping on what will then be a used
system. sonnen’s example in rapidly deploying microgrids, then
finding a home for them on the island for the long haul has
added significant value to the community of Lares and more
broadly across Puerto Rico.
“This solar project is going to energize more than just the
farmers and their families. Our facilities will make jobs
available for the area’s youth and will allow us to offer art
therapy to help residents cope with the aftermath of the
hurricane,” said Elisa Sanchez, site manager for the Lares
community. “Thanks to the incredible support of partners like
sonnen, we are able to go beyond our primary goal of housing
area families, but also restore a sense of community and
culture.”
The Lares microgrid is the 11th such system sonnen ⚡ and
Pura Energía ⚡ have installed in Puerto Rico since the
hurricane, with more on the way. Including the physical
components of the system, sonnen and Pura Energía have donated
more than $350,000 via the del Sol Foundation for Energy
Security to the people of Puerto Rico. 💐 🌞
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Re: Microgrids
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 1, 2018, 4:59 pm
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[center]The Tesla Grid Controller Debuts, Helping Samoa Toward
100% Renewable Electricity Goal ✨[/center]
July 31st, 2018 by Kyle Field
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