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Scale Microgrid Solutions Brings Indoor Farm Microgrid Online
Scale Microgrid’s modular microgrid for Fifth Season, a startup indoor farming company, uses 160 kW of photovoltaic solar panels, 200 kW of lithium ion batteries and a 1,200-kW natural gas generator outfitted with advanced emissions control technology
Little Leaf Farms Raises $90M to Grow Its Greenhouse Network
Massachusetts-based Little Leaf Farms has raised $90 million in a debt and equity financing round to expand its network of hydroponic greenhouses on the East Coast. The round was led by Equilibrium Capital as well as founding investors Bill Helman and Pilot House Associates. Bank of America also participated.
Bringing The Future To life In Abu Dhabi
A cluster of shipping containers in a city centre is about the last place you’d expect to find salad growing. Yet for the past year, vertical farming startup Madar Farms has been using this site in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, to grow leafy green vegetables using 95 per cent less water than traditional agriculture
Farm In A Box Planned For Bridgeport's East End
BRIDGEPORT — You will not find any vast acres of fertile soil and crops in the East End neighbourhood. So the state, city and area activists have teamed with an entrepreneur on what they all said they believe is the next best thing: farmland in a box
Microgrids, Indoor Agriculture Go Together Like Peas And Carrots
In the last year and a half, Schneider has announced deals with Fifth Season and Bowery Farming, two vertical farming startups
US (PA): 60,000 Square Foot Vertical Farm To Be Powered By Microgrid
Schneider Electric and Scale Microgrid Solutions will design, build and finance a microgrid for Fifth Season
History of Microgrids In The US: From Pearl Street To Plug-and-Play
While it may seem that microgrids are new, the history of microgrids shows they have been around in some form for years in the US
Microgrid At The Center of $630 Million London City Airport Expansion
The London City Airport microgrid, now under development, will nearly double the size of the airport’s electricity distribution infrastructure, from 3.6 MVA to 7 MVA, and help power a major airport expansion and upgrade.
Here’s What’s Driving Energy Storage Markets — And How to Benefit
Energy storage markets are growing quickly, driven by regulations, demand charges, plus utilities’ need to integrate solar into the grid and avoid building new peaking power plants

