Microgrids for Campus Environments

Campus microgrids

Sept. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Microgrids for Campus Environments

Distributed Power Systems for Commercial, Education, Government, Healthcare,
Industrial, and Research Campuses: Market Analysis and Forecasts

Microgrids, which are pockets of distributed energy resources that can be isolated from the utility power grid, represent an attractive option for single-owner campus environments. Campus microgrids, and especially educational institutions, are currently the leading segment of the microgrid market in terms of actual online operating capacity. Interest in microgrids is now spreading beyond the educational institution market to other campus segments, as well, including commercial, government, healthcare, industrial, and research campus markets.

For a variety of reasons, the United States represents the best overall market for microgrids in most application segments. Key factors include pockets of poor power quality scattered throughout the United States and the structure of markets for distributed energy resources. The latter has stimulated creative aggregation possibilities behind the meter at the retail level of power service. Instead of being driven by grid operators, the microgrid market in the United States is customer-driven. Microgrids can offer a quality and diversity of services that incumbent utilities have not been able to provide. These U.S. market dynamics will be instrumental in the identification of business and technology models that may be applied to campus microgrids around the world in the years to come. read more>>>