The Democratization of Energy though Neighborhood Microgrids
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Corbett, Laurence W.; Weber, Charles; Anderson, Tim
- Source
- 2022 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 2022 Portland International Conference on. :1-9 Aug, 2022
- Subject
- Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Transportation
Industries
Microgrids
Reliability engineering
Power generation
Resilience
- Language
The concept of a microgrid is a relatively recent development, and has been applied to high resource facilities with continuous power requirements. The use of microgrids to maintain an electric power supply during adverse events for a neighborhood is novel. This paper outlines some of the considerations for such an undertaking, and presents a few techniques which may be useful to produce a successful implementation of a neighborhood microgrid. Putting power generation in the hands of individual households would serve to democratize the energy industry, and improve the resilience of the power grid.