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Summary
Some ideas make too much sense to ignore. That was the feeling in 2016 when Lincoln Electric System first investigated the concept of constructing a 29 MW community-owned, microgrid to bolster local disaster-recovery efforts in the downtown Lincoln, Nebraska area.
The idea was born from two basic factors. First, project planners realized early on that there was an inherent synergy on the grid in the form of an anchor generation source — the J Street generation plant — owned by the utility and supplemental customer-owned generation, all situated near numerous vital city, county and state facilities. Second, this was an opportunity to enhance a community-centric mindset fostered by LES’ relationship with the county, city and its customer-owners.
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