How to Use microgrid in a Sentence

microgrid

noun
  • This divergence could lead to a shift through the adoption of microgrids.
    Tracy Price, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Harris toured one lab that featured a fast-charger system and a smart microgrid.
    Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2021
  • Even the smallest microgrid is still a time-consuming project that requires a lot of effort.
    Luis D’acosta, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • The microgrid includes 26 megawatts of solar power and a 40 megawatt-hour battery.
    Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
  • Distributing solar lanterns, clean cookstoves, and low-energy microgrids to poor villagers might make those handing them out feel good.
    Ted Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2016
  • In the event that a regional utility does a public safety power shutoff, the microgrid can keep humming along.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Solar power, microgrids and other technologies are being deployed there as well.
    Andrew Freedman, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Scale just helped produce a report that found that there's massive potential in low-cost and quick-to-build solar and storage microgrids for data centers.
    Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
  • SunHouse the benefit of a microgrid to protect against future blackouts.
    Camille Squires, Quartz, 27 July 2021
  • That means that if a major transmission line gets knocked down or roads become inaccessible, homes and businesses on a microgrid can keep their own lights on.
    Umair Irfan, Vox, 17 July 2024
  • In 2007, Berg landed a contract to install rooftop solar at a local school, with the idea to set up a microgrid.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2022
  • So, the microgrid provided by Schneider safeguards them from the threat of power interruption.
    Bret Baier, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Billions of dollars are being funneled into the emerging sector, which includes tech like gas turbines, fuel cells and solar microgrids.
    Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
  • One of Armond Budish’s first ideas as a county executive was setting up a microgrid to attract business.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 9 June 2022
  • Solar is one of them, particularly if the panels are connected to a storage device and micro-inverters that serve as a de facto microgrid.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • As for the cost of solar microgrids, the off-grid study mentioned earlier showed near parity in costs of using microgrids powered with a mix of solar and gas and solely gas-powered ones.
    Greg Robinson, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Here in New Mexico and elsewhere, some rural co-ops are taking the initiative to build microgrids that can provide power when the larger grid goes down.
    Eric MacK, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The Army plans to install a microgrid on every Army installation by 2035, the report states.
    Ellie Kaufman, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
  • That distributed energy resources, next-generation microgrids and smart public-private siting of energy assets must all be part of the mix.
    Mark A. Aitken, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2025
  • With the money, Nuru will increase its urban microgrids in Congo to four, from one, and be able to produce 13 times as much electricity.
    Max Bearak, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • In the tiny town of Maricao, with 5,000 people, locals recently began moving to build their own microgrid.
    Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2022
  • Small communities and neighborhoods need to set up microgrids that are sourced with local renewable electricity and can store and share electricity with each other.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • At the event, investors announced what amounted to around $23 billion that would go toward projects including solar microgrids, carbon markets, and reforestation.
    Max Bearak, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The Army's Climate Strategy includes building a microgrid on every base by 2035.
    Natalie Brand, CBS News, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The island campus itself was more sustainable, with a solar array on the dining hall and plans for a solar-plus-battery microgrid — a big deal on an island currently powered mostly by diesel generators.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Frequency Becomes Unstable Frequency is the sine qua non of all electrical systems, from microgrids to the national grid.
    Llewellyn King, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The key to any microgrid, and especially to the JFK microgrid, is to determine if the energy inputs are sufficient to meet the demands of the outputs.
    Daniel Markind, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • By building small solar projects and microgrids in rural communities, Hawkins explained, Trico will be able to keep those communities running if long-distance transmission lines go down in a storm.
    Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2024
  • According to Black Rock Labs, about 78 percent of playa generators—all but the largest ones—could be replaced by solar microgrids, whose price will hopefully come down to more affordable levels.
    Alden Wicker, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2023

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