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Contractor: General MicroGrids, Inc Title: Energy Delivery using Smart Microgrid Solutions for Developing Economies (India) Partners: Microgrid Systems Laboratory (MSL), The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) and India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF)
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Contractor: General MicroGrids, Inc • Title: Energy Delivery using Smart Microgrid Solutions for Developing Economies (India) • Partners: Microgrid Systems Laboratory (MSL), The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) and India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF) • Purpose: Supply the energy industry a practical approach to increasing access to energy and reducing energy poverty in developing economies through microgrids. Three scenarios are covered: • Off grid entirely • Off grid to start, grid growth will interconnect • On grid industrial showing low grid reliability
Focus on market segments and “anchor tenants” • Policy, institutional and legislative reforms that support smart microgrid and distributed energy solutions to rural electrification and grid modernization • Design a business model for risk management, commercial scale and network development; attract public-private investment models • Sustainable energy operations, including addressing social impacts • Medium to low-cost technical approaches
Networked energy systems that cluster individual microgrids • Smart microgrid capacity-building, through collaboration with Indian partners • Provide education and training on modeling and analytical tools, technical and operational methods, business and financial best practices • Development of appropriate standards for health, environmental quality, safety, reliability and cyber security • Sustainable rural community planning, zoning, siting and permitting processes
Two stages for a working energy delivery platform: • Stage 1 – “this project” that will outline a plan for piloting a new energy management model. It is aimed to ensure that the elements are researched and studied for selected sites in the target country; • Stage 2 – a follow-on, pilot construction project that builds upon the model, leveraging the public-private investment concept identified.