A new Department of Energy grant will help create the first "microgrid" in rural Iowa, transforming the generation and distribution of electricity in Montezuma, Iowa Iowa State University hopes rural ...

Running a farm like Rose Acres takes a lot of power. In the six-county service area where Tideland EMC operates, the egg farm uses more power than any other customer to keep operations running ...

When a community needs resilience, it’s important that developers, designers and equipment providers slow down and do their ...

Hot Springs' system, which can provide 100 percent of the town’s peak load and up to six hours of backup power went live on Oct. 2, only five days after the storm. The microgrid operated continuously ...

Kurt Myers, INL’s Energy and Grid Systems Integration group lead, explains how the Microgrid in a Box functions. (Idaho National Laboratory) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) celebrated the ...

Rural communities are integral to our nation’s economy, culture, history, and ecological health — and our future. Yet, our public policies often either treat rural America as an afterthought or make ...

Iowa State University hopes rural Iowa's first microgrid can provide more reliability and help communities recover from natural disasters more quickly. The U.S. Department of Energy announced last ...

In 2024, DOE announced nearly $60 million in funding to support solar microgrid installations at rural community health centers. The investment is part of its Energy in Rural or Remote Areas program ...