Solar City Is Now Offering A Mini Grid Product For Groups Who Want Their Own Electric Grid
These mini grids are designed for groups such as cities and towns, corporate campuses, military bases, or in remote locations such as islands.
With natural disasters increasingly taking out our large grid infra structure for various periods of time, these local grid solutions are beginning to become quite an option
The company, whose chief executive is Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk, said the grids will include distributed solar panels (rooftop), Tesla lithium-ion batteries and controllable loads to offer users “cleaner, more resilient and more affordable power.”
The SolarCity service, which will be sold under the name GridLogic, is built on a concept of power nodes and connections, where each node (a set of energy-producing solar panels) includes locally optimized distributed energy resources and loads. Each node is self-contained and capable of operating autonomously as well as in coordination with the larger system; that way it can scale up if needed and a collection of nodes itself becomes a locally optimized node.
SolarCity said the distributed node concept simplifies what has traditionally been a complex utility grid system by combining a set of “stable and self-optimized building blocks that operate in a coordinated fashion.”
Solar City says this system is now available worldwide.
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