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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.
As the market for energy storage, particularly in commercial and industrial applications, continues to expand, we dial in on what’s driving this growth and how EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) Firms and Developers can ensure long-term success with their energy storage customers.
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.
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.
Recognizing the critical role of microgrid technology in strengthening the country’s outdated central grid, various federal agencies have taken initiatives to support and accelerate microgrid deployments. Here, we take a dive into these new federal funding opportunities and how to navigate the challenges in accessing them.
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.
Join us to examine the complexities of quantifying, valuing, and monetizing resilience for C&I fleets, and explore insights into how to enhance a resilience strategy.
Project developers and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPCs) firms deploying on-site clean energy systems are encountering a significant hurdle: interconnection transmission delays. Here, we explore how the modern microgrid can empower C&I project developers and EPC firms by mitigating the impact of these delays.
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?
The energy sector is undergoing a disruptive transformation as distributed energy systems challenge traditional centralized power grids. These distributed systems, like a modern microgrid, offer more opportunities for cost savings, greater resilience, lower carbon emissions, and increased energy independence.
While PLCs have served their purpose in the early stages of microgrids and may continue playing a role in simpler fossil-fuel-based microgrids, they do not offer a compelling solution for managing and monitoring the modern microgrid.
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.
As Commercial and Industrial operations seek ways to optimize site economics, strengthen resilience, and reduce emissions, plant managers will face an uphill battle if they rely solely on traditional utility bills.
In most instances, plant managers know exactly what they need to achieve their energy goals: more resources. Unfortunately, managers must often contend with internal hurdles blocking their desired objectives, like financial constraints, organizational resistance, or technical complexity.
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.
Commercial and Industrial plant managers face monumental tasks to reach urgent energy goals… all while keeping the power on. Achieving these goals — such as maximizing cost savings, strengthening energy resilience, and cutting carbon emissions — will be critical to ensure operations remain competitive in an increasingly electricity-based economy.
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.
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.
As we prepare and strategize for the new year, we want to recap some highlights and milestones that shaped Heila Technologies in 2022. We’ve worked hard to solidify new partnerships, deploy our technology, and expand our offerings. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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…
In the previous entry in this series, we discussed energy resilience through expertise, and in this entry, we highlight energy resiliency through impact.
In the previous entry in this series, we discussed energy resilience through performance. In this entry, we explain the importance of energy resiliency through expertise.
Strengthening energy resiliency through performance optimizes microgrids so utilities and end users can restore electricity more efficiently and prevent outages from occurring, all while reducing carbon emissions
RE+ is upon us once again, and Heila Technologies is primed to impress at this year’s event. Showcasing our success as a front runner in solar industry innovation and building the future of energy resiliency, Heila will be on-site at Booth 4036.
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.
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.