{"id":421687,"date":"2010-03-12T16:57:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=9863"},"modified":"2010-03-12T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:57:19","slug":"research-firm-forecasts-microgrid-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421687","title":{"rendered":"Research firm forecasts microgrid boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9865\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 210px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9865\" title=\"Pike logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pike-logo1.gif\" alt=\"Image: Pike Research\" width=\"200\" height=\"49\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Pike Research<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>With Americans focusing more and more on streamlining their energy consumption and reducing costs, <a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/microgrid.htm\" >microgrids<\/a> may become an increasing part of the solution. Smart integration that can allow communities, companies or institutions to operate \u201coff the grid\u201d is not only attractive, but is rapidly becoming a genuine alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Microgrids are \u201cislanded\u201d power generation and distribution zones that operate autonomously from the larger electrical grid. A new report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikeresearch.com\/\" >Pike Research<\/a> predicts that more than 3 GW of new microgrid capacity will be come online globally by 2015 at a total investment of $7.8 billion. The firm expects more than 2,000 sites to be operational worldwide by 2015, up from fewer than 100 in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Pike sees North America as the biggest player, accounting for 74 percent of industry capacity. Researchers anticipate that most of that will come in the form of institutional microgrids, followed by commercial\/industrial and community grids.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe and Asia Pacific, community microgrids are forecast as the largest categories.<\/p>\n<p>As the current top-down system becomes increasingly unreliable and insecure and isn\u2019t always friendly to renewable power generation, microgrids may gain appeal, with the potential to be part of a larger effort to create a Smart Grid that can add intelligence and automation while giving customers greater control over consumption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe distinguishing feature of a microgrid is the ability to separate and isolate itself from the utility\u2019s distribution system during brownouts and blackouts,\u201d says Pike Research managing director Clint Wheelock.  \u201cThis degree of localized control is compelling for many microgrid proponents during this time of increasing concern over grid reliability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Green Right Now Reports Image: Pike Research With Americans focusing more and more on streamlining their energy consumption and reducing costs, microgrids may become an increasing part of the solution. Smart integration that can allow communities, companies or institutions to operate \u201coff the grid\u201d is not only attractive, but is rapidly becoming a genuine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}