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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.

Tim McDuffie, senior business development engineer at Smarter Grid Solutions, offers guidance for Native American communities developing tribal microgrids.

Published: 15 Apr 2021, 06:48 By: Andy Colthorpe The basics of how a community microgrid built under the scheme would work to supply customers and critical facilities like hospitals in the event of outages or PSPS events. Image: PG&E. Communities at risk of losing their electricity supply in the service area of California utility PG&E when disasters strike are being supported in developing their own microgrids through a new scheme announced by the utility this week. PG&E, one of California’s three big investor-owned utility companies, is rolling out the Community Microgrid Ena...

Dive Brief: California regulators adopted on Thursday rates, tariffs and rules for how the three largest investor-owned utilities (IOUs) in the state will facilitate microgrid deployment in California to ensure grid resilience and backup power capabilities. The tariffs with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) have new rules in place to reduce barriers to microgrid development. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) ordered the utilities last summer to submit reports and plans on new resiliency programs and their suppo...