Microgrid Dreaming: California Gov. Brown Makes it Real at his Ranch
Who knew he was envisioning his own home when three years ago in his inaugural address California Gov. Jerry Brown described a future with microgrids.
In a walk-the-talk move, Brown now has a solar plus storage microgrid serving his new home, a ranch north of Sacramento.
Brown needed the microgrid for the same reason 1.4 billion others in the world need microgrids. The isolated home had no access to an electric grid.
“Given his leadership in connection with climate change and renewable energy, one would expect Gov. Brown to embrace solar+storage to power his home,” said Catherine Von Burg, CEO of SimpliPhi Power, a California company that supplied the batteries. “But this microgrid was also motivated by an all-too-common reality: the electrical infrastructure serving the ranch’s location in Colusa County simply didn’t exist.”
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6yIt's good to see that the Governor has some skin in the game. Action speaks loader than words.