Microgrid | Microgrid Associates

Smart Grid Integration and Storage Experts

Microgrid Associates ,LLC is a New York cleantech smart grid and storage integration company offering our clients a diverse range of solutions in areas such as engineering, interconnection, compliance, commissioning and operations support to help guide throughout energy projects entire lifecycle.

Our team's decades of experience within small and large utilities, system operators, independent power producers, and technology providers gives us the ability to deliver long lasting solutions that address our client's biggest challenges.

Services:

Grid Integration

Engineering and Interconnection

Pre-Construction Design Services

Commissioning - Substations , BESS and PV plants

Reliability and Compliance

Benefits :

Optimized design. Match energy resources to your operational profile and include a mix of new and existing generation and load side.

Maximize existing investments.

Potential for incentives. Explore the impact of local utility tariffs and rates and help you secure grants and incentives to maximize your system’s financial performance

Insight to current and future resource usage for accurate forecasts and decisions

WHAT IS A MICROGRID?

A microgrid is a local energy grid with control capability, which means it can disconnect from the traditional grid and operate autonomously.

HOW DOES A MICROGRID WORK?

To understand how a microgrid works, you first have to understand how the grid works.
The grid connects homes, businesses and other buildings to central power sources, which allow us to use appliances, heating/cooling systems and electronics. But this interconnectedness means that when part of the grid needs to be repaired, everyone is affected.

This is where a microgrid can help. A microgrid generally operates while connected to the grid, but importantly, it can break off and operate on its own using local energy generation in times of crisis like storms or power outages, or for other reasons.

A microgrid can be powered by distributed generators, batteries, and/or renewable resources like solar panels. Depending on how it’s fueled and how its requirements are managed, a microgrid might run indefinitely.

HOW DOES A MICROGRID CONNECT TO THE GRID?

A microgrid connects to the grid at a point of common coupling that maintains voltage at the same level as the main grid unless there is some sort of problem on the grid or other reason to disconnect. A switch can separate the microgrid from the main grid automatically or manually, and it then functions as an island.

WHY WOULD A COMMUNITY CHOOSE TO CONNECT TO MICROGRIDS?

A microgrid not only provides backup for the grid in case of emergencies, but can also be used to cut costs, or connect to a local resource that is too small or unreliable for traditional grid use. A microgrid allows communities to be more energy independent and, in some cases, more environmentally friendly.