28 Mar 2012
Alameda County unveils its cutting edge microgrid in the fifth largest Santa Rita jail and offers a demonstration of large-scale distributed generation.
What happened
Ucilla Wang of Gigaom writes that Chevron and political dignitaries unveiled a microgrid, featuring solar, wind, fuel cells and a lithium-ion battery system, at the Santa Rita Jail. Chevron built the microgrid at the one million square foot facility in Dublin, California.
Background
Smart Planet’s Kirsten Korosec ties the project back to California’s 2001 energy crisis, which caused Alameda County to stabilize the facility’s power. With around 4,000 inmates,...
30 Nov 2011
Argentines can expect to face increases of between a factor 2 and 3, or even more, on their energy and water bills, as the government starts eliminating the increasingly costly subsidies, now approaching as much as US$17bn per year, from various sectors including energy, water and transport.
What happened
With subsidies to the utility sector (among others) taking an increasing share of Argentina’s annual budget to maintain energy and water prices at the levels following the economic crisis of a decade ago, starting November 2, the country’s government, recently re-elected in a landslide vote, has issued a series of announcements to eliminate these subsidies.
Background
In the first announcement on November 2, the government announced that subsidies would...
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