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

About this episode

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...

People in this episode

Hosts: Tim Montague, John Weaver

Guest: Elisa Wood

Topics covered

• community microgrids
• grid resilience
• energy
• technology
• business

Keywords

• microgrids
• grid resilience
• community energy
• weather emergencies
• energy policy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Energy Changemakers, Energy Changemakers podcast

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