Funding Puts Community-Scale Microgrid in Line for Wholesale Market Participation

Renewable Energy World: The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved a grant for a community-scalemicrogrid that will participate in California’s wholesale electricity market.

According to the CEC, it will give $5 million to the Humboldt State University Sponsored Programs Foundation for a renewable energy microgrid at the Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport. The CEC said that the project will demonstrate the first multi-customer, front-of-the-meter microgrid with renewable energy generation owned by a community choice aggregation (CCA). The microgrid circuit will be owned by an unnamed investor-owned utility.

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