Microgrids.io
Grid Efficiency for Building Resilience
An educational platform helping municipalities plan, procure and operate community microgrids — improving reliability, sustainability and resilience for the places people live and work.
The Fundamentals
Understand microgrids from the ground up
What is a Microgrid?
A localized power grid in a small geographical area serving a defined network of users — capable of operating connected to or islanded from the main grid.
Learn moreWhat are the Benefits?
Power reliability, economic advantages, grid resilience and reduced environmental impact for critical municipal facilities and communities.
Learn moreKey Components
Loads, distributed generation assets, energy storage, advanced controls and the point of common coupling that ties it all together.
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The Planning Academy
The Community Microgrids Planning Academy was developed and is maintained by the Center for Resilient Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, in cooperation with Greener by Design, LLC and the Regional Plan Association.
- Project initiation & site identification
- First and second level screening
- Microgrid development planning
- Tutorials and curated resources
Research
Development Challenges
A multi-year project exploring the critical challenges currently facing the successful procurement and financing of local government microgrids — undertaken by NJIT and the Bloustein Local Government Research Center at Rutgers, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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