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Smart Community Microgrid
Elexicon Energy’s Smart Community Microgrid is helping to modernize electricity distribution grids and is demonstrating innovation in cutting-edge technologies that make distribution systems run better. The technology also gives customers more choises and control over their power use.
The project is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Energy’s Smart Grid fund and the IESO ’s Grid Innovation Fund. The Smart Grid Fund provides money to test, develop and launch the next generation of technologies that can turn electricity distribution systems into modern, digitally enabled grids.
The project leads long-term positive impacts for the community including the adoption of renewable generation and electric vehicle charging, power quality improvement, grid reliability improvements and more. The smart and sustainable community offers resiliency, clean self‐generation, demand management and conservation attributes lowering carbon footprint. Elexicon is also field‐ testing a storage asset for the direct benefit of a community. This reduces the need for more centralised generation assets and helps developing virtual net‐metering policies and regulations.
CoE 2020: Electricity Innovation • Canadian Electricity association
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