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US communities adopt disaster-proof #microgrids ️
#solar farms embrace #sheep grazing to cut emissions and costs
and #prisons in the Netherlands and Sweden reduce reoffending with mental health-focused reintegration programmes

https://squirrel-news.net/news/green-microgrids-power-us-regions-solar-farms-embrace-sheep-prison-of-the-mind/

This isolated town in Maine could be a model for the clean energy… https://bit.ly/3VklOJe #climate #microgrids #TidalPower

FairyHut off-grid

I was so fed up with Ilha Madeira still producing electricity with more than 70% fossils, 53% of that diesel (*triplefacepalm*), I couldn't wait to get off of it.
Smol money, smol start :)

Phase I: Oct. 2023 4 panels hybrid 7.5kW

Phase II: Dec. 2023 +4panels, off-grid

Phase III: Nov. 2024 +4panels, 11kW

Technical details in AltText + comments

This disaster relief nonprofit is pioneering a clean energy alternative to noisy, polluting generators | Energy News Network http://energynews.us/2024/10/24/this-disaster-relief-nonprofit-is-pioneering-a-clean-energy-alternative-to-noisy-polluting-generators/ #solar #microgrids

Resiliente Stadt für alle: Lokale dezentrale Energiesysteme, sogenannte #Microgrids, können urbane Infrastrukturen widerstandsfähiger machen und Risiken für die Bevölkerung verringern, etwa bei großflächigen Stromausfällen infolge von Naturgefahren oder Cyberangriffen. Forschende des KIT haben ein Modell entwickelt, das einen gerechten Zuschnitt dezentraler Energiesysteme berücksichtigt.

https://www.kit.edu/kit/pi_2024_056_microgrids_resiliente_stadt_fuer_alle.php

Resiliente Städte durch #Microgrids: Forschende des @KITKarlsruhe haben ein Modell entwickelt, das einen gerechten Zuschnitt dezentraler #Energiesysteme berücksichtigt
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/07/18/microgrids-resiliente-stadt-fuer-alle

336 #ClimateSolutions #MicroGrids

"Using small microgrids to help restore a healthy planet"
By Geoff Strong & Richard van der Jagt for Common Dreams

https://www.nationalobserver.com/node/42059

Quotes:
"Our climate is close to a tipping point where we will lose the ability to reverse the warming that has occurred from our cumulative carbon emissions over the past 50 to 100 years. Any measures that allow carbon emissions to continue doom the world to catastrophe."

"The way forward is through the development of clean renewable energy systems in staged, small microgrids, utilizing the free energy of nature’s wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and ocean wave and current systems."

"Municipal and county governments should encourage the development of microgrids. These can be as small as a single-family dwelling such as Art Hunter developed in Ottawa, or the size of a municipality, all producing energy with no harmful emissions. Renewable components can also be produced to be 95 per cent recyclable."

"Federal and provincial governments need to be onside, curtailing all subsidies for fossil fuels, while providing incentives to small businesses developing clean renewable energy and upgrading major electric grids."

About the authors:
Geoff Strong is an atmospheric/climate scientist by profession, a Fellow of and former national President of the Canadian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society (CMOS, 2006-07), and has received several awards from that society during his career that began in 1963.
Richard van der Jagt is a retired hematologist /oncologist with a long-standing interest in the links between an adverse environment and exposure to environmental toxins and adverse health outcomes. He is adjunct prof of medicine at U of Ottawa.