Growing in popularity in #California, #microgrids essentially act as mini-electric grids that can power a defined area by operating independently of the conventional electric #power system.
Prices for energy storage are dropping and since our grid cannot/will not be built out as fast as we need in order to reduce emissions as fast as we need to, batteries and distributed microgrids that provide for power generated on-site to be stored by the producer instead of used on the grid are our fastest way to offset more fossil fuel burning.
The starting price of 2hr Megapack commercial energy storage dropped by 2% to only $1,278,860.
Here's a great picture of climate progress of the type that the climate doomers won't be posting since it's too boring to get boosts and likes on stuff like this, but just a couple of years ago this would have been fossil fueled generators being installed at this public water utility. #ClimateProgress#ClimateSolutions#Microgrids#WeCanDoThis
"Solar-based microgrids have also seen an uptick in adoption since Maria. During prolonged outages, they can provide a cleaner and less expensive alternative to emergency diesel generators. Diesel generators emit harmful pollutants and are expensive to operate, especially in the aftermath of a devastating storm, when fuel is scarce. " #disasters#generators#solar#hurricanes#microgrids
I truly need to get our #blogs back up, first by deciding what to do with #b2evolution no longer being maintained. I need to expand our #IoT to #SensAE maturity model from [component], connection, communication, contextualization, collaboration, causation and cognition to adding the missing step between #causation and #cognition which is #conceptualization to realize valuable sensor analytics ecosystems (SensAE) such as #teleinteractive#microgrids and #SmartRegions