With the imperative to provide sustainable energy increasingly joining the safe, reliable, and affordable mandate, the idea that utilities can provide value-added services beyond just delivering electricity and gas has gained momentum around the United States. Value-added services are broadly defined as a utility’s programmatic offerings to customers outside the traditional business of delivering safe, reliable, and affordable system power and gas.

The availability of clean water is critical to today’s society. With the increasing number of electrical outages from extreme weather and an aging grid, water and wastewater treatment plants are challenged to remain operational 24/7/365 and are turning to microgrids as a diesel alternative for backup power generation.

This report from Navigant Research explains how modular, low cost microgrids can provide long-duration resiliency services to host customer sites while helping integrate variable renewable energy supplies at the grid operations level.

This paper by the Clean Energy Buyers Institute (CEBI) explores ways to ground resilience in the context of clean energy, highlighting strategies in four impact areas.

The data center industry continues to meet society’s increased demand for constant connectivity, content delivery, and myriad business and personal necessities. As the data center industry expands, whether in traditional facilities or at the edge, data center leaders seek ways to deploy better, more resilient mission critical operations, including power systems. Meanwhile, severe weather events, cybersecurity threats, and aging equipment strain the electric grid.

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This report from Microgrid Knowledge compares the cost of power outages with the associated economic value of electric reliability. They introduce an innovative approach, reliability-as-a-service, that reduces the capital costs for microgrid customers, and provide real-world examples of how microgrids using this model performed in Texas during Hurricane Harvey.

This report from Navigant Research explains how modular, low cost microgrids can provide long-duration resiliency services to host customer sites while helping integrate variable renewable energy supplies at the grid operations level. The duality such modular microgrids can offer has been clearly demonstrated in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market. Can a similar approach be applied to other markets, such as California, which has faced several long duration outages over the last three years?