Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Whither The Microgrid?

A RenewableEnergyWorld article features 3 answers to the question:

1. “Truthfully, I think microgrid is a very good concept — it has certain applications — but not in general,” He sees microgrid as successful in rural areas on military bases and at universities.

2. “The military bases and campuses are piloting this, but that is just the beginning.” Information technology can solve problems that inhibit more widespread use of microgrid, he says.

3. “People are installing things that are not cost-effective because they don’t want a one week outage.” What’s coming are microgrids made up of consumer-producers who will sell into the various electricity markets . . . The consumer will finance and build the asset and then sell energy, efficiency or demand reduction. The utility may act as buyer.

This probably is NOT a Chinese menu . . . all 3 answers can’t have it right.

Source: http://electricalcontractor.com/?p=9584

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