Poster: Low Cost Community Micro-Grids By Efficiency and Reduced Availability (TO-22-C074).
Daniel L. Villa, Jimmy Quiroz, Jack Flicker, Christian Jones, Pavich Frances · 2022
Microgrids provide a community with the capacity to maintain electric service during power outages.Having such capacity can increase the electric resilience of a community.Unfortunately, microgrids are costly and have so far been applied to high consequence applications such as hospital life support and military command centers with availability requirements above 99.9%.Availability is the percentage of the load energy demand served by the microgrid during power outages, not including the startup period.In addition, current microgrids mostly consist of environmentally unfriendly solutions like diesel generators.This poster shows how the cost of a renewable energy microgrid drops by reducing availability alongside cost effects for energy efficiency (EE) measures.