Today, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors approved a Memorandum of Understanding for the Redwood Coast Airport Renewable Energy Microgrid. Key partners for this project include the County of Humboldt, which will...
Category - Microgrids
Maia Cheli
EPIC Symposium 2019: a field report
I presented at the California Energy Commission’s EPIC Symposium in Sacramento last Tuesday. The conference gathered energy policy and technology professionals from across California, with a thousand people in...
Peter Alstone
Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid: Technical Kickoff
On January 30-31, we held a technical team kickoff for the Redwood Coast Airport Renewable Energy Microgrid. Wednesday’s agenda included tariff structures, establishing a business case for microgrids, and plans for...
Technical Update: Redwood Coast Airport Renewable Energy Microgrid
This fall, we have been working on project initiation tasks in advance of our technical team kickoff in early 2019. Here are some of the highlights: The contract with our major partner, the Redwood Coast Energy...
Dave Carter
Student research developments: summer 2018
This summer, thirteen students contributed to Schatz Center research projects in smart grids, bioenergy, wind, and off-grid energy access. SMART GRIDS Craig Mitchell provided construction observation at the Solar+...
Solar+ project continues in Blue Lake
The Solar+ project at the Blue Lake Rancheria (BLR) hit high gear this summer, with activity across our research and design areas — from engineering to market assessment. Our project is at the halfway point, with...
SEL Real-Time Automation Controllers
Last week, Schatz Center engineers Dave Carter and Marc Marshall attended a training in Portland, Oregon to learn about the capabilities of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories’ (SEL) Real-Time Automation...
Schatz Energy interviews on KHSU
Catch up with these recent Schatz Energy interviews on the KHSU Magazine: Measuring Dirty Fuels to Improve Lives Show host David Reed with Schatz Center’s Nick Lam • April 13, 2018 Resilience Achieved with Blue...
Schatz CenterSustainable Futures 4/5: Greening the Grid & Improving Resilience
Renewable energy microgrids are an emerging technology that can support: emergency preparedness job creation greenhouse gas reductions energy cost savings grid reliability and improved resilience across lifeline sectors...
A clean energy microgrid for the Humboldt County airport
A cutting-edge clean energy microgrid is coming to Humboldt County’s regional airport. Designed by the Schatz Center, the microgrid will generate green electricity, create jobs for local contractors and technicians, and...
Blue Lake Rancheria microgrid wins Project of the Year Award at DistribuTECH conference
The Blue Lake Rancheria (BLR) microgrid was awarded the 2018 Project of the Year Award for Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Grid Integration at the annual DistribuTECH conference held this week in San Antonio, Texas...
Schatz Energy in brief: climate-smart infrastructure and sustainable bioenergy
The Union of Concerned Scientists just released a new white paper on “climate-smart” infrastructure in California, citing the Blue Lake Rancheria (BLR) microgrid as a prime example of infrastructure built to...
