Building Community Resilience with Microgrids

Friday, October 16, 2020

3:05 PM – 3:50 PM EDT

In response to human and non-human emergency conditions, microgrids can serve as a tool to build resilience within a community’s critical infrastructure to assure essential services to the public as well as a level of business continuity. The session will begin with a discussion of best practices on developing microgrid deployment plans within a community. Experts will discuss analytical methods for the development and deployment of microgrids complimented with case studies of projects at different levels to highlight the importance of collaboration amongst individual end-use customers, utilities and local governments.

Moderator(s)

Ben Ealey

Principal, Grid Integration
Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Speaker(s)

Jacqueline DeRosa

Vice President Battery Energy Storage Systems
Ameresco
Folsom, California, United States
Eva Gardow

Technical Lead, Principal
Electric Power Research Institute
Palo Alto, California, United States
Todd Olinsky-Paul

Senior Project Director
Clean Energy Group / Clean Energy States Alliance
Montpelier, Vermont, United States