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Improve Resilience by Mitigating Unplanned Outages

By investing in backup power systems, conducting regular power audits, and leveraging an advanced energy monitoring tool like Heila iQ, manufacturers can minimize downtime, enhance efficiency, meet sustainability goals, and navigate the challenges of high energy costs.

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Beyond Transportation: How Electric School Buses Can Create More Resilient Local Communities

If you’re considering electric school bus adoption, or have already implemented electric school buses for your district, don’t skip over the power of bidirectional vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging. A one-way ticket to building energy resilience, join us in this blog to explore why V2G charging infrastructure is perfect for school buses, how it works, and how you can integrate it with your fleet.

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Electrifying School Bus Fleets: Funding and Financial Avenues

School districts, bus fleet contractors, and Engineering, Construction, and Procurement (EPC) firms nationwide have been presented with a golden opportunity to embrace the shift to electric school buses (ESBs) and contribute to a cleaner environment. Here, we explore the financial avenues to going electric.

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What’s the Buzz About Modern Microgrids?

In an era of advancing energy technologies and evolving power grids, the modern microgrid has emerged as a significant player in the realm of energy infrastructure. But what exactly is a modern microgrid, and why should you be well-versed in the intricacies of this distributed energy system?

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C&I Facility Energy Data: The Next Frontier for EPC Firms

Clean energy innovations and advancements continue evolving rapidly, with many Commercial & Industrial (C&I) facilities looking to leverage new technology to cut energy costs and emissions. As a result, Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) firms will be increasingly asked to deploy onsite Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) systems for C&I facilities or entire portfolios.

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Harness the Power of Energy Data to Achieve Maximum Cost Savings

No matter the sector, energy systems play a critical role in Commercial & Industrial operations, and maintaining efficient and cost-effective systems remains a top priority for every C&I plant manager. However, as companies convert from mechanical to electrical-power processes and deploy onsite distributed energy resources (DERs), this transition will result in larger energy loads and more complex power systems.

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The State of The Grid: 2023

As a leader in transitioning to the new energy grid paradigm, we decided to start a quarterly series dedicated to the current state of the grid. In this series, we’ll explore what’s impacting the grid most harshly and how Heila Technologies continues innovating new solutions to improve grid resilience, deploy more renewables, and reduce emissions.

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Transitioning to a New Energy Grid Paradigm

Imagining our current energy grid paradigm as an ecosystem rather than a single system can help us envision why we need to strengthen energy resiliency and deploy more renewable resources — and how to do so.

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Energy Connectivity is Not Enough: True Resilience Requires Customization and Standardization

Energy Connectivity is Not Enough: True Resilience Requires Customization and Standardization   When deployed, the electrical grid was a modern wonder of the world, providing efficient electricity to utilities, businesses, and homes in a vast technological network unlike anything ever built. However, the grid’s outdated design lacks the customization needed to ensure resilience and meet…

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Shouldn’t Every Day be Earth Day?

As we at Heila celebrate this important day, we are taking the chance to reflect on its significance as well as the mission that drives our innovation: to enable renewable and distributed energy resources (DERs) to become the pillars of a cleaner, more resilient, and more equitable electric grid.

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Electrical Transmission Lines in Winter

Lessons Learned from Past Blackouts

Climate change has caused extreme weather events like hurricanes, wildfires, and powerful winter storms to increase in both intensity and frequency. As more regions across the country face extended power outages due to these events, we are confronted with the harsh reality that a centralized grid is not well suited to meet the growing need for climate resiliency. Recently, we saw this across the state of Texas, where record-low temperatures and two severe winter storms forced the grid operator to institute power shut-offs for millions of people in order to prevent the collapse of the entire grid. The traditional centralized hub-and-spoke architecture of the power grid needs support, and distributed energy resource (DER) systems like microgrids have the potential to do just that, providing local resiliency while simultaneously easing the grid’s load during emergencies.

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