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 However, the grid’s outdated design lacks the customization needed to ensure resilience and meet…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.