Community Microgrids Are Proven. So Why Aren’t They Everywhere? #342

Community Microgrids Are Proven. So Why Aren’t They Everywhere? #342

April 2, 2026 · 45 min

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Elisa Wood discusses the importance of community microgrids for grid resilience and the barriers to their widespread adoption.

Billion-dollar weather emergencies hit the United States every 19 days. In the 1980s, they came every 90 days. The grid is still running, but communities are paying the price when it fails. Elisa Wood, founder of Energy Changemakers and host of the Energy Changemakers podcast, joins Tim Montague on The Clean Power Hour to explain why community microgrids are the missing layer in grid resilience, where they are actually working, and what is stopping most communities from building them. In this...

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