Microgrid 2017 Proceedings

Conference Overview

Microgrid 2017 brought together over 450 experienced microgrid owner/operators, utility leaders, project developers and technology innovators with regulatory experts and influential policymakers. The program emphasized practical, real-world experience coupled with forward-looking experts and included tours of working microgrids in pharma, healthcare, industry and higher education.

The Technical Program featured presentations covering subjects including:

Business Models and Financing	Campus Energy
Combined Heat and Power	Energy Storage
Feasibility	Fuel Cells
Master Planning and System Design	Metering and Controls
Operations	Optimization
Policy and Regulation	Resiliency

Business Models and Financing

Microgrids: Delivering a Smarter, Cleaner, and More Resilient Grid Infrastructure

Posted By Doug Staker

So you want to be your own utility...

Posted By Charles Ward

Microgrids are Bringing Certainty to Healthcare

Posted By Steve Pullins

Panel Discussion: Financing, De-Risking & Investing in Microgrids

Posted By Coleman Adams

Case Study - Automated Distribution System

Posted By Stephen Bowman

Microgrid Implementation Models

Posted By Joseph Sullivan

Financial and Engineering Case Study: A Two-Sided Platform Business Model for Microgrids Using Existing CHP Facilities in Brookyn and Queens

Posted By Guy Warner

Microgrids as a Service A New Approach to Unlock More Efficiency, Better Sustainability, and Higher Resiliency

Posted By Mark Feasel

Microgrids - From Niche to Mass Market

Posted By John Murray

Potsdam Microgrid - A Community Effort

Posted By Jonathan Nickerson

Campus Energy

Panel Discussion: Financing, De-Risking & Investing in Microgrids

Posted By Coleman Adams

Campus Energy Plant - Tufts University

Posted By John Webster

Education Uninterrupted: Creating Campus Microgrids for Schools and Universities

Posted By John Merritt

Combined Heat and Power

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Energy Storage

Optimization of Microgrid Assets Using Artificial Intelligence

Posted By Terence Waldron

Combined Heat & Power with Spinning Reserve - Core of a Larger MicroGrid

Posted By Suresh Jambunathan

The Future of Microgrids

Posted By Bjoern Lang

Energy Storage for Microgrids

Posted By Bill Sproull

Optimization of Microgrid Assets Using Artificial Intelligence

Posted By Terence Waldron

Blue Lake Rancheria Microgrid: Challenges and successes in designing, building, and operating a remote community microgrid

Posted By Max Majkowski

Education Uninterrupted: Creating Campus Microgrids for Schools and Universities

Posted By John Merritt

Fuel Cells

Use of Stationary Fuel Cells as the Backbone of the Modern Microgrid

Posted By Mike Palmer

Feasibility

Understanding Microgrid & Energy Storage Feasibility Studies

Posted By John Vernacchia

Distribution System Locational Performance Model

Posted By Christopher Berendt

Urban Ingenuity's New Microgrid Extension Service for Washington DC

Posted By Shalom Flank

Master Planning and System Design

Getting to "Microgrid - Ready"

Posted By Michael Higginson

Cities and Microgrids

Posted By Galen Nelson

Making the Microgrid- Utility Relationship Work

Posted By Peter Falcier

NY Prize and Transit Oriented Microgrids

Posted By Michelle Isenhouer

Political, Financial and Technical Considerations of a Municipal, Multi-User Microgrid

Posted By Douglas Nordham

Understanding Microgrid & Energy Storage Feasibility Studies

Posted By John Vernacchia

Microgrid Islanding with CHP The Evolution of a Project

Posted By Michael Dempsey

Combined Heat & Power with Spinning Reserve - Core of a Larger MicroGrid

Posted By Suresh Jambunathan

Urban Ingenuity's New Microgrid Extension Service for Washington DC

Posted By Shalom Flank

Potsdam Microgrid - A Community Effort

Posted By Jonathan Nickerson

Blue Lake Rancheria Microgrid: Challenges and successes in designing, building, and operating a remote community microgrid

Posted By Max Majkowski

Microgrid Protection Challenges

Posted By John Kumm

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard - History of a Microgrid

Posted By James Redden

Optimization

Co-optimizing Energy and Process in the Microgrid

Posted By Scott Higgins

Model-Based Online Power Management Solution A Key Element to any Microgrid Program

Posted By Mohammad Zadeh

Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Integration - Microgrid

Posted By Tamer Rousan

Urban Ingenuity's New Microgrid Extension Service for Washington DC

Posted By Shalom Flank

Operations

Model-Based Online Power Management Solution A Key Element to any Microgrid Program

Posted By Mohammad Zadeh

Lessons Learned in Successful Microgrid Controls and Protection

Posted By Will Edwards

Integrating Multiple Generation Sources such as Solar, Battery, and Cogeneration Systems

Posted By Benjamin Locke

Lessons Learned From Field Implementation of Three Utility Microgrids at Duke Energy

Posted By Jason Handley

Blue Lake Rancheria Microgrid: Challenges and successes in designing, building, and operating a remote community microgrid

Posted By Max Majkowski

Policy and Regulation

Microgrid Implementation Models

Posted By Joseph Sullivan

Working with Utilities in a Complex Regulatory Environment

Posted By C. Baird Brown

NY Prize State 2: Update

Posted By Tom Bourgeois

Metering and Controls

Co-optimizing Energy and Process in the Microgrid

Posted By Scott Higgins

Optimization of Microgrid Assets Using Artificial Intelligence

Posted By Terence Waldron

Model-Based Online Power Management Solution A Key Element to any Microgrid Program

Posted By Mohammad Zadeh

Lessons Learned in Successful Microgrid Controls and Protection

Posted By Will Edwards

Integrating Multiple Generation Sources such as Solar, Battery, and Cogeneration Systems

Posted By Benjamin Locke

Lessons Learned From Field Implementation of Three Utility Microgrids at Duke Energy

Posted By Jason Handley

Resiliency

Political, Financial and Technical Considerations of a Municipal, Multi-User Microgrid

Posted By Douglas Nordham

The Future of Microgrids

Posted By Bjoern Lang

Understanding Microgrid & Energy Storage Feasibility Studies

Posted By John Vernacchia

Microgrids as a Service A New Approach to Unlock More Efficiency, Better Sustainability, and Higher Resiliency

Posted By Mark Feasel

Sustainability and Resiliency Drives Utility System Sharing

Posted By Haig Monokian

Climate Change and Resilient District Energy

Posted By Tim Peer

Self-Sufficient, High Reliable Microgrids

Posted By Robert Beaton

Potsdam Microgrid - A Community Effort

Posted By Jonathan Nickerson

Blue Lake Rancheria Microgrid: Challenges and successes in designing, building, and operating a remote community microgrid

Posted By Max Majkowski

Education Uninterrupted: Creating Campus Microgrids for Schools and Universities

Posted By John Merritt

The Key Role of CHP in Microgrid Systems

Posted By William Steigelmann

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard - History of a Microgrid

Posted By James Redden

Developing Economically Viable & Resilient Microgrids

Posted By Eliot Assimakopoulos

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Plenary Panels

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Mission-Critical Microgrids

Accelerating a Microgrid Market

The Grid of the Future - Upendra Chivukula

The Grid of the Future - Macky McCleary

Jay Wrobel, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Keynote Address

Anne Pramaggiore

Anne Pramaggiore is a recognized industry leader and voice for innovation, her keynote address shares insights on the evolution of the electric utility industry and the emergence of new technologies, including the role of distribution utilities in integrating microgrids into the larger grid.