Tagged: Micro-Grids

Environment
4:55 pm
Fri February 1, 2013

The Micro-Grid: The Grid Gold Standard?

Credit Sam Evans-Brown / NHPR
Clay Mitchell from Revolution Energy surveys the 60 kW solar array at East Kingston Elementary school. Despite cold temperatures the week before, the panels give off enough heat that most of the snow has slide right off.

For the most dedicated environmentalists, small scale renewables, right in our back-yard are the gold standard of energy generation. In the final installment of this weeklong look at New Hampshire’s energy future, we consider what a more distributed grid might look like.

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