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Big Buildings Hurt the Climate. New York City Hopes to Change That.
APRIL 17, 2019 New York City is about to embark on an ambitious plan to fight climate change that would force thousands of large buildings, like the Empire State Building and Trump Tower, to sharply reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
The legislation, expected to be passed by the City Council on Thursday, would set emission caps for many different types of buildings, with the goal of achieving a 40 percent overall reduction of emissions by 2030. Buildings that do not meet the caps could face steep fines.
Legend Power Announces US$550,000 Follow-on Order from Leading New York Property Manager
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Legend Power Systems Inc. (LPS:TSXV), a global leader in onsite energy management technology, announces that a leading New York property manager has facilitated the follow-on purchase of two SmartGATE™ systems for the New York City building complex of a global Fortune 100 technology company. These new orders follow a successful initial deployment and evaluation of a SmartGATE unit installed earlier in the same building.
Scale Microgrid Solutions Launches Modular Microgrid Platform
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2019--
Scale Microgrid Solutions today launched its Rapid Response Modular Microgrid (R2M2) platform aimed at helping communities and businesses in California mitigate the impact of power grid disruptions such as the Public Safety Power Shutoffs planned by utilities during the upcoming wildfire season. The R2M2 platform is a modular and scalable microgrid designed to deliver resilience and sustainable, affordable power to municipalities, public safety, commercial and industrial facilities that are at high risk of power loss.
Product Announcement: Rapid Response Modular Microgrid from Schneider Electric
Scale Microgrid Solutions, a technology company focused on developing sustainable, on-site energy solutions for mission critical facilities, worked with Schneider Electric, to launch the Rapid Response Modular Microgrid (R2M2). The R2M2 is a modular and scalable microgrid
designed to deliver resilience, sustainable and affordable power to combat the life safety and business continuity impact of outages as a result of severe weather and other natural disasters, such as wildfire season in California.
Lido and Skaled will concentrate on systematically increasing volume at the top of Legend’s sales funnel, improving sales conversion ratios in all stages of the sales cycle and increasing velocity across the complete customer sales process.
Legend Power® Systems Announces Strategic U.S. Growth Partners
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 31, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Legend Power® Systems Inc. (TSX-V: LPS), a global leader in voltage management technology, today announced strategic partnerships with New York based Lido Energy Partners, LLC (Lido), an energy-sector focused business development consultancy, and Skaled Consulting, LLC (Skaled), a sales consulting and strategy firm. Both organizations have successful track records facilitating U.S. expansion.
Lido and Skaled will concentrate on systematically increasing volume at the top of Legend’s sales funnel, improving sales conversion ratios in all stages of the sales cycle and increasing velocity across the complete customer sales process.
BOWERY FARMING WILL USE SOLAR MICROGRID TO SUPPORT UNINTERRUPTED FARMING
JANUARY 23, 2019
A solar-powered microgrid will soon help an urban agriculture startup grow vegetable greens inside a converted New Jersey warehouse.
Bowery Farming’s Kearny, New Jersey, facility will grow lettuce, kale and up to 100 varieties of plants, all indoors in a carefully controlled climate backed up by batteries, solar panels, on-site gas generators and technology that allows it to operate independently from the electric grid in the event of an outage or other disruptions.
Wildfire Threat Underscores Value of Microgrids for California Critical Facilities
MAY 16, 2019 In response to the wildfires that plagued California over the past 2 years (which led to the bankruptcy filing of Pacific Gas and Electric [PG&E]), a series of proposed solutions are on the table. One such solution includes the intentional shut-downs of the power grid during times of high fire risk. Utilities and policymakers have yet to recognize a more logical solution: microgrids. As small islands of emergency power, microgrids survive power outages by disconnecting from the utility grid.