Wired magazine recently visited the Blue Lake Rancheria and the Schatz Center to learn how microgrid systems create energy security during natural disasters. Reporter Matt Simon compares the Rancheria’s microgrids...
Category - Microgrids
Maia Cheli
Webinar (4/26): Lessons learned & best practices from 7 EPIC-funded microgrids
This Friday (9:30 am – 12:30 pm Pacific), microgrid professionals will join together to share their best practices and lessons learned from recent, cutting edge microgrid systems. Speakers represent seven projects...
Webinar (4/17): CCAs, resilience, and the Redwood Coast Airport microgrid
Interested in learning more about our design for the Redwood Coast Airport’s renewable energy microgrid? We’ll be joining the folks at the Clean Power Exchange for a free online webinar on Wednesday, April 17, from 11...
Powering the north coast with clean, local energy
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...
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...
