Microgrids are no longer a niche resilience product. For campuses, hospitals, data centers, and public facilities, they can coordinate generation, storage, and critical loads while supporting the wider grid.
The business case improves when resilience value, demand management, grid services, clean-energy targets, and avoided disruption are evaluated together.
About the author
Rev. Dr. Gerald F. Poe Jr.
Founder and Chief Executive Consultant of PoeTech Global Consulting. Technologist, strategist, veteran, aviator, and cross-sector advisor with more than three decades of experience spanning AI, energy, sustainable data centers, telecommunications, UAS, healthcare innovation, public infrastructure, and venture development.