Aaron Hand, Automation World
Summary
As service business models multiply and flourish, suppliers are finding new ways to take advantage of their in-house capabilities to provide extended services to customers. Microgrids—traditionally owned almost entirely by end users—are beginning to emerge with third-party ownership models, accounting for 46 percent of the new microgrid projects in 2017, according to GTM Research.
Schneider Electric has been offering its microgrid as a service (MaaS) to help manufacturers maintain an uninterrupted flow of electricity with more reliable and storm-resilient power. The supplier is also eating its own dog food, launching a series of microgrids at its own manufacturing facilities to get the same power resilience.
The latest project—the third MaaS project with Duke Energy Renewables and REC Solar—puts an advanced microgrid at Schneider Electric’s Foxboro, Mass., facility, which serves as the company’s Process Automation North American Power Generation Center of Excellence. It was less than a year ago that Schneider Electric unveiled the advanced microgrid at its Boston One Campus (BOC) in Andover, Mass., offering increased reliability, cost savings and sustainable energy production for critical R&D operations.
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