This spring, the Poudre Valley Electric Association (PVREA), which provides power to northern Colorado, plans to test a microgrid for a small town that has experienced outages because of car accidents on curvy roads, extreme weather, and, in September, a fire that left the town without power for 52 hours. The microgrid, which will replace … [Read more...]
Microgrid Rebuilding Continues as Haiti Struggles to Recover from Hurricane Matthew
October 31, 2016 By 1 Comment
Microgrid rebuilding continues in Haiti as the nation struggles to emerge from the rubble left from Hurricane Matthew’s devastating blow October 4. The Virginia-based National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) is mounting an effort to repair a microgrid in Coteaux pummeled by Hurricane Matthew, leaving the 1,200 co-op members it … [Read more...]
