Maryland Reporter
Summary
Maryland is facing a serious energy crunch. As demand surges and infrastructure strains, costs continue to climb. The state’s reliance on grid operator PJM Interconnect puts the fate of ratepayers in the hands of a regional market that is dependent upon expensive transmission and distribution.
One of the most promising tools to address this crisis is onsite power generation, or the generation of electricity at the location where it is consumed. These systems not only generate electricity, they also deliver it. When it comes to large loads like data centers onsite power generation can avoid the tremendous costs associated with bringing in electricity from far away – costs that are often borne by other utility ratepayers.
This onsite generation can utilize distributed energy resources such as distributed solar, fuel cells, battery storage, combined heat & power and other DER technologies to comprise a microgrid. Microgrids keep the power flowing during an outage by disconnecting from the grid in what’s called islanding.
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