Microgrids could bring big green changes to power systems

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Microgrids could bring big green changes to power systems

The microgrid approach focuses on creating a design and plan for local energy delivery that meets the exact needs of the constituents being served, whether a city, university, neighborhood, business park, or major mixed use development. At the local level, smart microgrids most efficiently and economically integrate consumers and buildings with electricity distribution and generation. Through smart microgrids, the economic and environmental benefits to consumers of the smart grid transformation are maximized, and are a significant multiple of the implementation costs, as described below … Microgrids enable consumers to meet some or all of their electricity needs by generating their own power, whether it is through sources like wind, solar, geothermal, microturbines and so on. This “bottom-up” consumer approach can reduce reliance on fossil fuels and lower greenhouse gas em...

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