• May 6, 2025
• Emily Brown
• Energy Master PlanningResiliencyWater Agencies

Is Potable Reuse the future of water and energy abundance in California?

“Water is too precious to use only once.”

At the December 2024 ACWA conference, Ali Chehrehsaz, CEO of TerraVerde Energy, hosted a panel with leaders in the California …

• March 11, 2021
• David Burdick
• Insight

The aftermath of the 2021 Polar Vortex (power outages, water safety issues, and the tragic loss of life) has left Texans and many others wondering: “How did it come to this? Why did the power grid fail us?” When large …

• October 15, 2020
• Kevin Ross
• Insight

With the proliferation of climate induced power outages and Utility initiated Power Safety Power Shutoff events (PSPS), many public agencies are evaluating the potential to deploy microgrids to mitigate operational downtime. Microgrids combine energy generation sources, such as solar PV …

• June 4, 2020
• Kevin Ross
• Insight

TerraVerde Energy closely tracks the status of the Self Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) program and the CPUC’s allocation of funding for the program. This blog post describes the current status of the various incentive categories, and highlights the imbalance of …

• May 27, 2020
• David Burdick
• Insight

In our previous TerraBlog post on microgrids, Sizing and Modeling the Performance of a Microgrid, we presented the methodology and tools we deploy for resiliency needs. For this fifth installment in our microgrid blog post series, we present the …

• May 20, 2020
• David Burdick
• Insight

In response to the emergence of Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events, CCAs and communities are exploring paths to increase community resiliency through deploying islandable solar PV plus battery energy storage systems (micro-grids) at critical facilities and community resiliency centers.  …

• May 12, 2020
• Ashley Hale
• Insight

In our previous TerraBlog post on microgrids, Technical Challenges & Solutions for Facility Microgrids, we share some technical considerations in analyzing a microgrid. This post is part four of our microgrid blog post series and presents a methodology for …

• April 29, 2020
• Patrick McKinney
• Insight

In our previous articles, we provided an introduction to our approach to developing an energy procurement strategy for the California High-Speed Rail System (HSR), as well as a detailed exploration of our methodology in building an energy use model. …

• April 22, 2020
• Jen Petherick
• Insight

In our TerraBlog series on microgrids, we are exploring some of the key market and technical considerations for evaluating and deploying solar PV and battery energy storage integrated systems that can provide back up power in the event of an …

• April 14, 2020
• Patrick McKinney
• Insight

In our introductory article, we provided an overview of our approach to developing an energy strategy for the California High Speed Rail System (HSR). In part two of this three part series, we will explore how TerraVerde applied physics …