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MICROGRIDS
You Don’t Have to Wait to Make Money on Microgrids
Several early adopters have found success in the microgrids-as-service business model.
by Julian Spector June 29, 2017
It may be neither a widespread phenomenon nor easy to achieve, but people can actually make money on microgrids today.
The localized, islandable networks of interconnected loads and energy resources have long eluded commercialization, in part because they are hard to commoditize and extract revenue from. The model of microgrids as service, though, has started to yield success, as three companies attested at GTM’s Grid Edge World Forum conference Wednesday.
Under the microgrid-as-service model, the customer doesn’t have to foot the bill for all of the expensive pieces that go into the system. Instead, a provider does that and extracts regular payments for the services desired.
Multiple value streams make it easier to pencil out, but one in particular stands out.
“Transmission and distribution deferral for us on microgrids is going to be huge,” said Jason Handley, director of smart grid technology and operations at Duke Energy...
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/you-dont-have-to-wait-to-make-money-on-microgrids
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Vehicle to Grid (V2G)
Building to Grid (B2G)
If you download a copy of the McKinsey report (link at bottom of OP) and look at exhibit 1 it gives the various income streams that can be tapped with storage. V2G and B2G exploit a number of those to varying degrees. The most profitable is probably frequency regulation.
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