Now Will Infrastructure Investors Finally View Microgrids As Resiliency?

Now Will Infrastructure Investors Finally View Microgrids As Resiliency?

Ambulances pass by a downed power pole after Hurricane Ida moved through Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, in ... [+] LaPlace, La. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) As the damage from Hurricane Ida on the Gulf Coast is still being surveyed, it's already clear that this is going to be a major infrastructure crisis. And in particular, power and water infrastructure. They're already talking about the power being out for weeks, potentially, and through our network in the utility industry we're hearing it could take well over a month for some residents and business owners to get their power back. This is just the latest example of an American community that is going to face major hardship as the utility grid goes down after a natural disaster. Forest fires, cold snaps, heat waves, more extreme storms... Thanks to climate change, these incidents are happening ever more frequently. As I wrote some months back, however, many microgrid developers haven't fully pivoted to offering resiliency as a service. Many owners of solar panels in the affected regions are going to be waking up to discover that when the utility grid is down, their on-site solar doesn't power their facility or home either. That's because policies