More and more alternative clean fuels are cropping up in microgrids to replace fossil fuel backup and boost resilience.
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For example, instead of adding fossil fuels to solar and storage — a common backup strategy — Sesame Solar added green hydrogen to the company’s mobile nanogrids. This is hydrogen produced using renewable energy.
And renewable natural gas is becoming more common in microgrids.
Clean ammonia is the latest clean fuel that can be added to microgrids. Mainspring Energy recently completed successful testing of the use of clean ammonia and hydrogen in its “linear generator,” which is a new clean power technology that can utilize numerous fuels — including ammonia, hydrogen, biogas and natural gas — with the same hardware.
The generator’s ability to use ammonia and other fuels is good news for microgrids and the…
Ammonia joins hydrogen and biogas as a clean fuel in microgrids and ‘linear generators’
