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Power outages are on the rise and grid resiliency is a growing concern, while an aging grid infrastructure complicates system management. This white paper from Shell Energy explores an exciting opportunity to rethink the grid: renewable microgrids, a DER solution that can support grid resiliency while helping to protect individual facilities against outages.

Explore how Ameresco is energizing a net zero future in Smart Energy Decisions' inaugural Supplier Spotlight. Ameresco, Inc. is a leading cleantech integrator and renewable energy asset developer, owner and operator. For over twenty years, the solution provider has been driven by the shared vision to energize a sustainable world. Whether focused on modernizing infrastructure, meeting net zero goals, reducing costs, or creating energy security and resiliency, the firm’s customers benefit from a single provider of energy solutions.

A microgrid located at Fort Hood’s Robert Gray Army Airfield in Texas demonstrated it was able to operate independently from the utility grid.

Kauai is improving its energy efficiency with two energy projects on the Hawaiian island.

Today’s energy challenges have created an unprecedented risk landscape – extreme weather is stressing grid infrastructure and pressure is mounting for our electric system to get cleaner, faster. Fortunately, as this white paper from Bloom Energy explains, businesses and communities are now armed with the power of choice. Explore the challenges we face and how leaders can gain control of their energy future through distributed generation and microgrid solutions.

Ameresco, Inc., a cleantech integrator specializing in eliminating the carbon emissions of buildings, energy efficiency and renewable energy, completed the commercial operation of its carbon reduction, energy savings, and smart grid project with John Paul II Catholic Secondary School in Canada. 

Continuing its 2021 slate of events, Smart Energy Decisions’ Virtual Distributed Energy Forum, was another success, connecting buyers and suppliers to accelerate the adoption of DERs, which are proving to be a key in the development of net zero strategies. SED’s tradition of exclusive presentations from senior energy and sustainability was on display once again.

An outstanding roster of keynote speakers is set for Smart Energy Decisions’ Virtual Distributed Energy Forum, September 13-15 online at SED’s Virtual EventHub. These exclusive executive keynote sessions, buyer-only preconference roundtables, and one-to-one meetings between buyers and suppliers will bring industry leaders together to explore the theme, “DER’s Role in Your Sustainability Strategy”.

Let's look forward to our 3rd annual Distributed Energy Forum, set for September 13-15, 2021 as a virtual event, by looking back at our 2020 DEForum to explore the content and ideas shared by our speakers and attendees.

In recent years, extreme weather events have resulted in power outages of increasing frequency, power, and duration across the country, driving up the cost of electricity and demonstrating the fragility of the utility grid. In this column from PowerFlex, Michael Robinson explains why microgrids are the ideal solution to create a sophisticated, resilient system that improves efficiencies, reduces fuel consumption, lowers GHG emissions, and saves money.