The mission of Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) is to provide reliable, cost-effective, and safe electricity to ensure the continued growth and prosperity of The Bahamas. The vision shaping the strategy of how best to meet this mission is ambitious: lead the Caribbean Islands in energy innovation and sustainability, setting new standards in grid reliability […]

According to a recent report from Guidehouse Insights global installations of microgrid capacity will grow by a compounded annual growth rate of 18% to reach over $55 billion in implementation spending by 2032.The expanding market for microgrids has created keen competition. It has also led to a series of acquisitions of smaller innovators by larger […]

Rural cooperative utilities were created under Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a utility structure benefiting from large-scale investments by the federal government in large hydroelectric facilities. These large infrastructure projects were designed to create jobs. Yet they also could provide low-cost electricity to regions, primarily in the West, that the private sector had not […]

The evolution of microgrid controls is filled with brilliant people. Among them is Larry Adams, who is now inching toward retirement, but is still refining control algorithms to be integrated into Encorp’s Egility platform. His legacy is an unrecognized key role in pushing the microgrid concept into the mainstream.  Larry started his career in controls […]

With all the hype today about new kinds of super smart software incorporating concepts such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, it is easy to forget about the critical role that actual hardware physical assets play in creating microgrids and other forms of distributed energy resources (DER) aggregation and […]