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California’s first 100% renewable energy, front-of-the-meter, multi-customer microgrid is now fully operational. Located in Humboldt County, California, the microgrid provides energy resilience for the regional airport and U.S. Coast Guard Air Station.
The challenges of developing community microgrids can be daunting, but Duke and Honeywell plan to develop them across the US.
Communities anywhere within the service area of California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) will now be eligible to apply for support to install renewable-plus-storage microgrids.
Posted By Kimberly Wear@kimberly_wear on Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 6:05 PM click to enlarge Humboldt State University RCEA’s Executive Director Matthew Marshall and his daughter Alex celebrate groundbreaking on the RCAM project Construction is underway on a microgrid at the county’s regional airport in McKinleyville that will boast a number of firsts when it becomes...
Jump to navigation By 05/19/2021 With a record-breaking drought in the works after three successive major wildfire seasons, we clearly need to be better prepared in 2021. Luckily, local institutions are stepping up to the plate. Although utilities such as PG&E have developed some temporary fixes like public safety power shutoffs, we need longer-term solutions. Relying upon traditional fossil fuel backup generators is a temporary stopgap that does not represent a viable solution for our future. The better solution is microgrids, which can create small islands of power leveraging clea...