Here in the San Luis Valley, we can put refrigerated warehouses and other critical infrastructure onto microgrids. Neighborhoods everywhere can declare independence from the grid.
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"Every year we have big outages, and not all are weather-related," said Julieta Giraldez, an electrical engineer at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. "The grid is aging; it's a big, interconnected grid that can create big outages."
The result is agencies are investing hundreds of millions of dollars building and maintaining their own backup "microgrids" — miniature replicas of larger commercial power grids that generate and transmit energy from multiple sources.
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http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20121202/FACILITIES02/312020006/Federal-facilities-get-off-grid
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