California Faces Big Challenges to Microgrid Plans for Wildfires and Outages

Greentech Media
By info@greentechmedia.comDec 10, 2020, 11:47 am173 pts
California regulators and utilities want to build microgrids for communities most at threat from the state’s increasingly deadly wildfires, and the widespread public safety power shutoff (PSPS) grid outages meant to prevent them. But despite policies to fund and enable these microgrids, California is still…

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