Microgrid: A Perfect Power System
“As of today, one billion people on this planet don’t have access to electricity. If the purpose is the cheapest electricity, we can do it. If the purpose is the most reliable electricity, we can do it. If the most important issue is when the hurricane hits, they can keep their lights on, we can do it. This pandemic has demonstrated that building a microgrid is a good idea. If you have a microgrid, in downtown, you can easily reduce the consumption of electricity, and if it’s in a neighborhood, you can increase it. I’m confident that distributed generation, going toward more renewable, and building more microgrid will demonstrate the way of the future, no doubt about that.”
IIT’s Microgrid: Saving $1milion a Year
“IIT’s peak load is about 12 megawatts. So, we have 52 buildings at the university that has a total consumption of 12 megawatts so 12,000 kilowatts. So, ever since we have built this system, we have had outages at the university, but no downtime. We do a lot of work-related to sustainability, making sure that we have a cleaner environment as we generate electricity.”
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