Edge Homes and PowerGrid Announce Joint Venture for Microgrid Development
Edge Homes and PowerGrid have formed a joint venture to develop microgrids for new residential communities, aiming to provide reliable and sustainable power.
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Altona Towns, a development in the city of Pickering, Ontario features six homes with Level 2 electric vehicle chargers and two homes that have their own Tesla Powerwall batteries. The community also shares a nearly 30 -kilowatt rooftop solar system and a 666 -kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery system. Ameresco’s project at the Spring Valley Campus of Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, is a 5 -megawatt solar array and 15 -megawatt-hour battery.
"But one of Ameresco’s most recent projects , a 5 -megawatt solar array and 15 -megawatt-hour battery at the Spring Valley Campus of Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, is being carried out in partnership with rural electric cooperative Holy Cross Energy."
"That’s the goal of the Fairmount Heights microgrid project being undertaken by Emera Technologies, a Maryland-based affordable housing nonprofit, and Pepco, the Exelon utility serving Maryland and Washington, D.C."
"But the community also shares a nearly 30 -kilowatt rooftop solar system owned by the condo corporation managing the individually owned homes, and a 666 -kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery system that’s owned and controlled by municipal utility Elexicon."
"The 37 -home solar- and battery-equipped subdivision is being developed by Lennar Homes in partnership with Emera Technologies, a business unit of Canadian-based utility holding company Emera, which also owns local distribution utility Tampa Electric."
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