The Bronzeville Community Microgrid has passed its first big test. Chicago-based utility Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) announced that it conducted a “simulated islanding” of the unique microgrid cluster ...

It is easy to overlook the low-rise, cream-colored building on Chicago’s Motor Row, a historic district that was a hub for auto dealers in the early 1900s. Yet the newly purchased headquarters for ...

Think of them as the four dials on a proverbial utility clock: Top of the hour grid reliability, quarter past intermittent renewables, climate change at the bottom and cost efficiency on the left hand ...

The Bronzeville Community Development Partnership’s new headquarters, center, at 2416 S. Michigan Ave. in Chicago. (Photo by Lloyd DeGrane / Canary Media) This is your first of three free stories this ...