Road to NanoGrid: Week 7 - The Social, Environmental and Economic portrait of being Off-Grid
Now, think about how these concerns, inefficiencies and massive costs apply to mining companies, the wood industry, the military, remote islands, and so many more locations. How much time, money, and lives, could we save if these communities had access to reliable, safe, clean, and affordable energy?
At IEEE this week, I heard everybody talking about solar and storage. They were thinking about how to modify market structure rules to regulate these new technologies, how to implement tariff structure, how to extract "value" for the grid owner and operator.
Perhaps it's time for regulators and innovators to think about this outside of the "Grid" box ...
The dependency to oil is bad for national security because public critical infrastructure is tightly energy dependent and becomes unveiled, and also bad for the environment because of CO2 emission. Zero-CO2 can only be achieved through small steps. Nano-grid is a trendsetter in this sense.