ENERGY - With Reliability a Concern, Universities Are Looking to Microgrids

The case for colleges and universities to invest in microgrids often includes mitigating the risk of prolonged blackouts caused by natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires. In the Midwest, where those threats are remote or nonexistent, there hasn’t been as great a sense of urgency to boost electric reliability on campuses as there has been in coastal regions and other disaster-prone areas. But as electric grid reliability ...

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