Microgrid

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To serve my customers, I have to make a certain number of kilowatts at times of peak load and a certain number of kilowatt-hours per year. Now the question is, How much generating capacity do I buy in solar PV panels and windmills?

James Kirtley, professor

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Professor James Kirtley and graduate students Michael Zieve and Jared Monnin are building a laboratory-scale microgrid that they will use to verify and further investigate results from simulation studies performed by Masdar Institute collaborators. In their lab-scale microgrid, they are using off-the-shelf equipment plus computer controls to replicate the behavior of key electricity generating and consuming devices.

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