White Papers
A New Grid Architecture for Optimizing Resiliency
This paper explores how a holistic regulatory approach to grid design and resource participation will encourage more microgrid development and resiliency enhancements. Download.
Guidehouse Insights: Powering Resilient EV Infrastructure
Guidehouse investigates the critical role that dual purpose microgrids play in the electrification of the transportation sector and making the transition to a low carbon energy future a commercial reality. Download.
Guidehouse Insights: Enhancing Resiliency for the Energy Transition
Guidehouse explores how dual purpose microgrids play a critical role in providing resiliency during the transition to a low carbon energy future. Download.
The Brattle Group Report: Decarbonized Resilience
The Brattle Group examines detailed data comparing the feasibility, economics, and GHG emissions of several alternative microgrid systems commonly considered for resilience purposes. Download.
Data Center Energy Delivery
In this white paper, Bill Kleyman with Switch explores how microgrids are changing the paradigm on data center power delivery, uptime, and efficiency. Download.
Navigant Research Report: Resiliency Microgrids
This paper examines how resiliency microgrids can enable cost-effective solutions to both mitigate outages from wildfire and extreme weather risks and to capture grid benefits. Download.
NREL Report: A Comparison of Fuel Choice for Backup Generators
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) compares backup generator configurations, analyzing the relative costs and benefits both in terms of economics and reliability of using natural gas versus diesel as fuel for backup systems. Download.
Reinventing Electrical Resiliency
Just as society becomes more and more reliant on uninterrupted power, the grid becomes more and more vulnerable. The solution to this disparity between an unreliable supply and an unrelenting demand manifests as electric resiliency. Download.
Microgrid Knowledge Report: The Affordable Microgrid
This report introduces an innovative approach – reliability-as-a-service – that reduces the capital costs for microgrid customers and puts their operations in the hands of experts. Download.
Microgrid Knowledge Report: Microgrids for the Retail Sector
Microgrids are a more reliable source of backup power that also provide a range of electrical services for the grid. Furthermore, microgrids have become affordable for many businesses via as-a-service contracts. Download.
Reinventing Electrical Resiliency for the Biopharmaceutical Industry
This paper explores how commercial, industrial, and institutional organizations can address electric resiliency challenges through onsite power leveraging traditional fuels to the newest technologies. Download.