How to Use microgrid in a Sentence

microgrid

noun

• This divergence could lead to a shift through the adoption of microgrids.
  — Tracy Price, Forbes, 2024-12-11
• Harris toured one lab that featured a fast-charger system and a smart microgrid.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2021-05-04
• The microgrid includes 26 megawatts of solar power and a 40 megawatt-hour battery.
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2022-05-26
• Distributing solar lanterns, clean cookstoves, and low-energy microgrids to poor villagers might make those handing them out feel good.
  — Ted Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 2016-08-30
• In the event that a regional utility does a public safety power shutoff, the microgrid can keep humming along.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 2023-09-01
• 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, 2025-01-09
• SunHouse the benefit of a microgrid to protect against future blackouts.
  — Camille Squires, Quartz, 2021-07-27
• 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, 2024-07-17
• In 2007, Berg landed a contract to install rooftop solar at a local school, with the idea to set up a microgrid.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2022-06-27
• So, the microgrid provided by Schneider safeguards them from the threat of power interruption.
  — Bret Baier, Fox News, 2023-12-29
• One of Armond Budish’s first ideas as a county executive was setting up a microgrid to attract business.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2022-06-09
• Among them: creating a microgrid for the island, which would be independent from the mainland power utility company.
  — Stephanie Bouchard, Smithsonian Magazine, 2020-03-16
• 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, 2025-04-25
• The Army plans to install a microgrid on every Army installation by 2035, the report states.
  — Ellie Kaufman, CNN, 2022-02-08
• 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, 2025-05-20
• 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, 2023-09-04
• The microgrid’s battery storage system will also provide electricity during the peak time of 4-9 p.m. when electric rates are highest.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2022-10-23
• 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, 2022-05-09
• 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, 2024-05-14
• As energy storage and solar, hydro, and wind power become more accessible, microgrids will thrive, and so will the jobs related to those renewable systems.
  — Elio Morillo, Popular Science, 2023-06-07
• The idea: This is the first major U.S. airport to be completely powered by its own microgrid, fueled by natural gas and solar energy.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2022-09-07
• Schatz Energy Research Center, which helped develop the microgrid.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 2021-02-25
• The Army's Climate Strategy includes building a microgrid on every base by 2035.
  — Natalie Brand, CBS News, 2022-08-31
• The city then plans to expand by connecting homes and neighborhoods into microgrids and by using community solar and networked geothermal to allow broader access to clean energy.
  — Mike Shriberg, The Conversation, 2025-03-10
• 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, 2024-09-18
• If approved by regulators, the micro-utility model, also known as a microgrid, could undermine the growth of those larger utilities by depriving them access to new homes or forcing them to lower their rates to keep that business.
  — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 2022-09-01
• The idea is that eventually more of Revel’s chargers, including those in its public-charging hubs, could be swapped out for bidirectional ones, transforming its vehicles into a roving microgrid.
  — Curbed, 2022-08-19
• Meanwhile, a local food cooperative or a solar microgrid can reduce emissions, empower people, and build social cohesion, all without tearing up another mountain.
  — Nathalie Kelley, Time, 2025-06-17
• That encompasses controls for community microgrids and virtual power plants that harness the collective energy storage of fleets of EV or solar batteries.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 2024-08-09
• Those utilities, Moan said, could buck the industry trend of urging policymakers to reduce financial incentives for rooftop solar and instead encourage the technology — along with other small-scale clean energy solutions, such as local microgrids.
  — Sammy Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-07-02