Featured in Electric avenues – 09-2017

Light in a blackout

Microgrid development: Driven by their ability to operate during blackouts and provide ancillary grid services, microgrids are popping up all over the United States. As more microgrids emerge, clusters of them could transform the centralized grid to a decentralized grid of microgrids powered by renewables.

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pv magazine

05 Sep 2017

The UCSD microgrid offers a great place for companies to pilot new technologies. This EV charging station by EVgo was part of a project to demonstrate the value of DC fast charging stations.

As the sun goes down on the beaches of La Jolla, the flows of electricity powering the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) silently shift from the solar panel arrays on the rooftops of the campus to the battery storage, fuel cells, and combined heat and power plant that make up the campus’s microgrid. The …

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