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Clean Energy for Resilient Communities: Expanding Solar Generation in Baltimore's Low-Income Neighborhoods
Commissioned by the Abell Foundation and authored by the Clean Energy Group, this report explores how solar energy can improve resilience in low-income neighborhoods in Baltimore. It evaluates opportunities for installing solar PV and storage on community buildings, examines finan...
Sanders, R. and Milford, L. Clean Energy Group (Prepared for the Abell Foundation)
Jan 31, 2014
Scaling Up Energy Efficiency Investment in Emerging Markets Private Sector Perspectives
Since 2000, electricity demand has flattened and decoupled from Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. This trend is anticipated to continue for the next several decades and is largely attributed to the im...
Foster, J. et al U.S. Agency for International Development
Dec 31, 2019
Tribal Energy: Federal Assistance to Support Microgrid Development
This Government Accountability Office report reviews federal assistance available to tribes seeking to deploy microgrids and other distributed energy resources. It identifies funding and technical support programs administered by agencies such as the Department of Energy, Departme...
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Jul 21, 2024
Microgrids, Infrastructure Resilience and Advanced Controls Launchpad: Final Report
To assess the value of wind energy to distribution, islanded, hybrid, and microgrid systems, the U.S. Department of Energy, its national laboratories, and industry collaborated on the Microgrids, Infrastructure Resilience, and Advanced Controls Launchpad (MIRACL) project. The 4-ye...
NLR
Feb 18, 2025
Cost-Optimal Pathways to 75% Fuel Reduction in Remote Alaskan Villages: Preprint
There are thousands of isolated, diesel-powered microgrids that deliver energy to remote communities around the world at very high energy costs. The Remote Communities Renewable Energy program aims to help these communities reduce their fuel consumption and lower their energy cost...
Simpkins, T. et al NLR
Dec 31, 2014
Microgrid and Integrated Microgrid Systems Program
This program report from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity summarizes initiatives aimed at advancing microgrids and integrated microgrid systems. It describes program goals, funded projects, research areas, and partnerships. The program seeks to develop technol...
U.S. Department of Energy
Dec 31, 2021
Optimal Deployment of Thermal Energy Storage Under Diverse Economic and Climate Conditions
This paper presents an investigation of the economic benefit of thermal energy storage (TES) for cooling, across a range of economic and climate conditions. Chilled water TES systems are simulated for a large office building in four distinct locations, Miami in the U.S.; Lisbon, ...
DeForest, N. et al Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory
Apr 14, 2014
A Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach for Optimal DER Portfolio, Sizing, and Placement in Multi-Energy Microgrids
Optimal microgrid design is a challenging problem, especially for multi-energy microgrids with electricity, heating, and cooling loads as well as sources, and multiple energy carriers. To address this problem, this paper presents an optimization model formulated as a mixed-integer...
Mashayekh, S. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jan 31, 2017
Design and Scheduling of Microgrids using Benders Decomposition
The distribution feeder laterals in a distribution feeder with relatively high PV generation as compared to the load can be operated as microgrids to achieve reliability, power quality and economic benefits. However, renewable resources are intermittent and stochastic in nature. A...
Nagarajan, A. and Ayyanar, R. NLR
Dec 31, 2015
Integrating Renewable Energy: What You Need to Consider in Rural Alaska
ACEP guidance report for rural Alaska communities considering renewable integration into diesel-based microgrids, emphasizing that integration creates both opportunities and hidden costs. Explains why operating reserve capacity matters for sudden load changes and for managing inte...
Green, N. University of Alaska Fairbanks
Dec 31, 2020
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