Smart Cities

The Threat to Microgrid Momentum

In this historic hurricane season, the fragility of existing energy infrastructure is on full display. One bright spot in all the coverage of Hurricane Harvey in Houston was that the microgrid equipped H.E.B. Grocery chain of stores kept its shops open and served the public, while power outages kept competitors closed. Each such microgrid success is getting deserved attention and inspiring imitation, creating the momentum needed to transform the nation’s electric power grid into a more resilient, more distributed energy system – sooner rather than later. But, Adam Maher Senior VP of CleanSpark sees a threat to this momentum in the overselling of any one type of distributed energy resource (DER). Maher says, “Many in the market seem to be missing the whole picture when designing a strategy to profit from the energy transformation in process right now. There is a trend to put one energy resource behind one meter and call the job done. […]

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