Electric Avenue Webinar

Critical Power for Essential Services:
Microgrids for Health, Emergency, and Municipal Services
Tuesday, March 14
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET

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This Electric Avenue segment will focus on how to:

• Identify the threats to local mission critical power systems
• Define the path to resiliency via deployment of microgrids
• Find the best way to facilitate all forms of energy use
• Lower the cost and increase the employment of local power production
• Network power in resilient local microgrid mesh to handle peak loads and islanding events

Moderator:
Joe Suppers, President, NODECOM/Swiss Vault

Panelists: 
Joe Magno, Managing Director, joemagno.com
Chuck Manto, Chairman-Emeritus, InfraGard’s National Disaster Resilience Council, CEO, Instant Access Networks
Mark Welsko, Chief Technology Officer, Worldwide Environmental Services (WES)

Some architectural and interconnection considerations include:

• Why storage is significant
• DC coupled bi-directional power flow
• Grid and local virtual power network combination
• Include mixed use commercial facility loads
• H₂ fuel cells for large capacity
• High instantaneous load profile challenges

This market segment is already implementing basic microgrids in their infrastructure topologies; we’ll discuss future advanced considerations already in the works, including:

• Autonomous microgrid power management
• Fault-Managed Power
• Bi-directional capability
• H₂ long term storage
• Virtual Power Plant (VPP) networks
• Neighborhood and community microgrids