Town of Adjuntas and Oak Ridge National Laboratory built linked solar microgrids that stayed powered during Puerto Rico’s April blackout
Puerto Rico’s centralized grid faces frequent outages due to aging infrastructure, mismanagement, vegetation, and storms
Privately financed solar-plus-storage installations grow by about 4,000 systems monthly, supplying over 12% of residential electricity
Casa Pueblo’s grid orchestration links multiple microgrids to trade energy, boosting redundancy and resilience
Adjuntas’ five microgrids provide 228 kW capacity and 1.2 MWh storage to homes and businesses off-grid
The new Community Laboratory for the Energy Transition will test and expand microgrid connections, including non-adjacent sites
Controversy arose when $365 million in federal funds was redirected from solar resilience to the fossil-fuel grid
Get notified when new stories are published for "General AI News"