Microgrids for Businesses and Utilities

Dec. 9, 2021
Concern about electric reliability has heightened for utilities and their business customers as wildfires escalate in California and public safety power shutoffs become the norm. In this video, industry experts and their customers discuss microgrids for businesses and utilities, the innovations they’re pursuing, obstacles they face, and the solutions they’ve found.

Concern about electric reliability has heightened for utilities and their business customers as wildfires escalate in California and public safety power shutoffs become the norm. In this panel discussion, industry experts and their customers discuss the microgrids for businesses and utilities, the innovations they are pursuing, the obstacles they face, and the solutions they’ve found.

Ken Horne, director of portfolio operations at Spring Lane Capital, moderates the discussion.

Featured speakers include:

Michael Robinson, Director – Strategic Market Development & Microgrids, PowerFlex, an EDF Renewables Company

Stacey Ellis, Capital Projects Manager, Domaine Carneros Winery

Angelo Campus, CEO/Co-Founder, BoxPower, Inc.

Lindsay Maruncic.
Sr. Manager, Renewable Energy at Liberty Utilities

Chris Johnson, CEO, Blue Planet Energy

Scott Laksey, Founder, Sandbar Solar & Electric

This video was recorded during Microgrid California: Keeping the Power Flowing During Grid Disruption. The one-day regional education event was designed for California businesses, institutions, and communities that are curious about how microgrids can benefit them. Held in October of 2021, the editors at Microgrid Knowledge gathered microgrid leaders for a day of interactive sessions designed to help innovators, developers, utilities, and technology and engineering firms exploring the microgrid space.

The event featured more than 30 speakers across five sessions. Panel discussions covered microgrids for businesses and utilities, agriculture and the food industry, education and campuses. and government, communities and CCAs. The event also included an interactive leadership session where panelists and audience members discussed takeaways and questions from the event.

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