Doors open at 6:00pm with light refreshments.

Community MicroGrids: Renewable Energy and Resilience: Improve Energy Reliability and Safety and Help the Planet.

In the fall of 2019, the Bay Area faced widespread power shutoffs resulting from climate change-fueled extreme weather and fire danger. Not having power for 3-6 days was inconvenient for most but dangerous and very costly for others. We must develop a safer, more reliable, less expensive and lower emission approach to delivering electricity to homes and businesses. The current system of sole reliance upon centralized power suppliers and long distance transmission has failed us. Fortunately, solutions are being developed. We need to transition quickly to a future where communities can generate all, or most, of their own power and ‘island’ from the larger grid in the case of emergency to be entirely self-sufficient.

Register here https://marinefm.org/event-3660640

Attend this event to learn about:

• The problems with our current electrical grid Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)
• Advances in energy storage and solar + storage
• Community Microgrids as an approach to energy resilience
• The Advanced Community Energy (ACE) Initiative and what policy changes are required to enable widespread microgrids
• Current microgrid projects in California and Marin
• Organizations in Marin involved in supporting new energy approaches and how individuals can become involved.