3 Signs That US Defense Dept. Is Gung Ho For Renewable Energy + Microgrids
August 19th, 2020 by Tina Casey
The US Department of Defense hasn’t exactly declared radio silence on renewable energy, but the sprawling global agency has been playing its clean tech news rather close to the vest over the past few years. That’s understandable, considering that the current Commander-in-Chief is not a particularly big fan of the non-fossil energy area. Nevertheless, DOD has been soldiering on into the sparkling green future, and three recent developments point in the direction of an accelerating transition to solar power and energy storage.
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1. DOD + DOE + NRECA = New Microgrids With Renewable Energy
First up is a newly announced microgrid partnership between DoD, the US Department of Energy, and NRECA, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
CleanTechnica has been spilling a lot of ink on the topic of rural electric cooperatives because they are in a unique position to innovate with renewables, energy storage, and other clean tech. That includes one of our favorite new topics, agrivoltaics and regenerative agriculture.
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/19/3-signs-that-us-defense-dept-is-gung-ho-for-renewable-energy-microgrids/
