Interview-based insights by NLR on integrating energy generation from diesel-reliant communities on integrating solar PV, wind generation, and energy storage. Participants identify barriers, operational practices, and enabling policies that improve energy reliability and reduce fuel use in isolated grids.

Publicly accessible as a user-friendly web tool and open-source code, NLR's REopt platform identifies the cost-optimal mix, sizing, and dispatch of hybrid distributed energy resources for a site, including grid-tied and off-grid microgrids.

A practical checklist covering microgrid planning, design, procurement, and implementation. The list developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Management Program provides key tasks, decision points, and references for commercial-scale microgrids and is useful for scoping, RFP development, and aligning owners, engineers, and contracting teams.

Concise lessons from utilities and practitioners on planning, valuing, procuring, and operating microgrids and other considerations that help decision-makers move from concept to execution.

A fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Development office explains microgrid fundamentals and their resilience benefits, outlines eligible components, and provides rule-of-thumb costs ($2-$5M/MW), design considerations, and references for further resources to support planning and implementation.