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User Objectives and Design Approaches for Microgrids: Options for Delivering Reliability and Resilience, Clean Energy, Energy Savings, and Other Priorities
This briefing paper, produced by NARUC and NASEO's Microgrids State Working Group, explores why different customers pursue microgrids and how design choices affect outcomes. Microgrids can operate in grid-connected or islanded mode, using local generation, storage and controls to ...
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, N.
Dec 31, 2020
Phase I Microgrid Cost Study: Data Collection and Analysis of Microgrid Costs in the United States
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity Microgrid Cost Study project is looking at identifying the costs of components, integration and installation of U.S. microgrids and project cost improvements and technical accelerators over the next 5 years and beyond. This...
Giraldez Miner, J. et al NLR
Oct 31, 2018
Security-Constrained Design of Isolated Multi-Energy Microgrids
Energy supply in rural and off-grid communities has traditionally relied on diesel-based microgrids, due to limited access. But global environmental concerns are pushing for the transformation of these systems into renewable-based microgrids. This transition to more complex system...
Mashayekh, S. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mar 31, 2018
A Comparative Study of DC and AC Microgrids in Commercial Buildings Across Different Climates and Operating Profiles: Preprint
Bosch has developed and demonstrated a novel DC microgrid system designed to maximize utilization efficiency for locally generated photovoltaic energy while offering high reliability, safety, redundancy, and reduced cost compared to equivalent AC systems. Several demonstration pro...
Fregosi, D. et al Robert Bosch LLC
Mar 31, 2015
Techno-Economic Analysis of a Microgrid System for Rural Communities in the United States
Access to running water has been a pressing issue in many developing countries across the globe, and also continues to be a problem in some rural areas in the United States. Today, more than two million Americans living in rural areas lack access to basic water supply and infrastr...
Nakhai, A. et al NLR
Dec 31, 2022
ESIC Energy Storage Commissioning Guide
This report updates the previously published Energy Storage Integration Council (ESIC) Energy Storage Commissioning Guide 2018. In order to align with the rapidly changing energy storage technology space, these guidelines were refined to address how commissioning can be most effic...
Electric Power Research Institute
Dec 31, 2022
The Value of Battery Storage in Military Microgrids: An Assessment for ESTCP
Fixed military installations cannot function without a reliable supply of electricity. The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) mission is under increasing threat as the power backbone of installations faces growing risk from grid power outages, especially as outages of up to ...
Marqusee, J. et al NLR
Dec 31, 2019
Scaling Up Energy Efficiency Investment in Emerging Markets Private Sector Perspectives
Since 2000, electricity demand has flattened and decoupled from Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. This trend is anticipated to continue for the next several decades and is largely attributed to the im...
Foster, J. et al U.S. Agency for International Development
Dec 31, 2019
Optimal Deployment of Thermal Energy Storage Under Diverse Economic and Climate Conditions
This paper presents an investigation of the economic benefit of thermal energy storage (TES) for cooling, across a range of economic and climate conditions. Chilled water TES systems are simulated for a large office building in four distinct locations, Miami in the U.S.; Lisbon, ...
DeForest, N. et al Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory
Apr 14, 2014
Financing Microgrids in the Federal Sector
Recent high-impact events such as hurricanes and wildfires highlight the need for energy system resilience. One potential impact of these events is the loss of utility grid power to federal sites, negatively affecting the ability to carry out their missions. Depending on the need ...
Kurnik, C. and Voss, P. U.S. Department of Energy
Jul 31, 2020
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