How to Use microgrid in a Sentence

microgrid

noun

• In 2007, Berg landed a contract to install rooftop solar at a local school, with the idea to set up a microgrid.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2022
• The microgrid includes 26 megawatts of solar power and a 40 megawatt-hour battery.
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• Even the smallest microgrid is still a time-consuming project that requires a lot of effort.
  — Luis D’acosta, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• Harris toured one lab that featured a fast-charger system and a smart microgrid.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2021
• The Army plans to install a microgrid on every Army installation by 2035, the report states.
  — Ellie Kaufman, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
• With the money, Nuru will increase its urban microgrids in Congo to four, from one, and be able to produce 13 times as much electricity.
  — Max Bearak, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
• The key to any microgrid, and especially to the JFK microgrid, is to determine if the energy inputs are sufficient to meet the demands of the outputs.
  — Daniel Markind, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• In the event that a regional utility does a public safety power shutoff, the microgrid can keep humming along.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2023
• Here in New Mexico and elsewhere, some rural co-ops are taking the initiative to build microgrids that can provide power when the larger grid goes down.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• The Biden administration is rolling out $3.5 billion for new electric lines, microgrids and safety upgrades to the power grid — the largest investment ever in the U.S. grid.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• SunHouse the benefit of a microgrid to protect against future blackouts.
  — Camille Squires, Quartz, 27 July 2021
• In the tiny town of Maricao, with 5,000 people, locals recently began moving to build their own microgrid.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2022
• The Army's Climate Strategy includes building a microgrid on every base by 2035.
  — Natalie Brand, CBS News, 31 Aug. 2022
• That means that if a major transmission line gets knocked down or roads become inaccessible, homes and businesses on a microgrid can keep their own lights on.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 17 July 2024
• So, the microgrid provided by Schneider safeguards them from the threat of power interruption.
  — Bret Baier, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2023
• The idea: This is the first major U.S. airport to be completely powered by its own microgrid, fueled by natural gas and solar energy.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
• One of Armond Budish’s first ideas as a county executive was setting up a microgrid to attract business.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 9 June 2022
• The microgrid’s battery storage system will also provide electricity during the peak time of 4-9 p.m. when electric rates are highest.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
• Solar is one of them, particularly if the panels are connected to a storage device and micro-inverters that serve as a de facto microgrid.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• Among them: creating a microgrid for the island, which would be independent from the mainland power utility company.
  — Stephanie Bouchard, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
• At the event, investors announced what amounted to around $23 billion that would go toward projects including solar microgrids, carbon markets, and reforestation.
  — Max Bearak, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
• As energy storage and solar, hydro, and wind power become more accessible, microgrids will thrive, and so will the jobs related to those renewable systems.
  — Elio Morillo, Popular Science, 7 June 2023
• The island campus itself was more sustainable, with a solar array on the dining hall and plans for a solar-plus-battery microgrid — a big deal on an island currently powered mostly by diesel generators.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
• Small communities and neighborhoods need to set up microgrids that are sourced with local renewable electricity and can store and share electricity with each other.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
• Increasing solar power can help the country reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, says Islam – and these microgrids could even feed excess energy back into the national grid.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
• Schatz Energy Research Center, which helped develop the microgrid.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 25 Feb. 2021
• Businesses rely on dependable energy, and being able to tap into a giant generator, like the microgrid, would attract new businesses to the area, Budish said.
  — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
• If approved by regulators, the micro-utility model, also known as a microgrid, could undermine the growth of those larger utilities by depriving them access to new homes or forcing them to lower their rates to keep that business.
  — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
• The idea is that eventually more of Revel’s chargers, including those in its public-charging hubs, could be swapped out for bidirectional ones, transforming its vehicles into a roving microgrid.
  — Curbed, 19 Aug. 2022
• Lewin stressed that one solution is microgrids powered by both solar and natural gas – smaller networks of power infrastructure separate from the main grid, which can be used to power nursing homes and hospitals during a major event like a hurricane.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024