A community microgrid is helping New Yorkers exchange renewable power
Residents in two New York City neighbourhoods are helping to keep each other’s lights on by sharing energy generated by solar panels.
Using a TransActive Grid, people in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal and Park Slope neighbourhoods are able to give away or sell excess solar power they produced with rooftop panels to those living nearby.
Community microgrids like the Brooklyn microgrid are able to operate independently of larger regional or national grids. They can give those…
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