With All Eyes On Hurricane Sandy, A Good Time to Evaluate Micro-Grids

Forbes: The Weather Channel this morning reports on a "remarkable" storm "of potentially historic proportions," as Sandy barrels north and the low out west prepares to join the party. It may be another 'perfect storm,' But we just had two historic storms last year in the northeast, with damage exceeding a billion dollars. Such storms wreak havoc on the electric grid, which is why a workshop I attended in Hartford, CT on "Micro-Grids in New England" seems particularly relevant. Micro-grids are independent...

URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2012/10/26/with-all-eyes-on-hurricane-sandy-a-good-time-to-evaluate-micro-grids/?ss=business:energy
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