Great article, thanks for sharing. Agree completely. In terms of your qs, what technologies are needed to see more deployments…. Most energy consumers do not know they have options beyond grid only power. Beyond that, they do not know what is possible, where to begin, what facilities are good candidates or who to work with. All the hardware technologies, financial mechanisms and incentives exist today to ensure microgrids are super efficient and economical for managing businesses and communities. I believe we need more enabling technologies to inspire businesses to invest and act. This is our mission at www.veckta.com - where to build, why you should build, what you should build and then who you should build it with - automated and enabled with software.
As more systems are deployed the benefits will be realized and celebrated, systems will come down further in price and more will adopt. Shifting from passive consumers to active users - in a commoditized busienss environment this is an incredible way to realize more profitable outcomes. Utilities (in their form today but likely having needed to change their commercial models) will need to then embrace, incentivize and figure out how to best manage these incredibly powerful, flexible and dispatchable assets. Exciting times. $68B/yr market, ready to take off!
Great article, thanks for sharing. Agree completely. In terms of your qs, what technologies are needed to see more deployments…. Most energy consumers do not know they have options beyond grid only power. Beyond that, they do not know what is possible, where to begin, what facilities are good candidates or who to work with. All the hardware technologies, financial mechanisms and incentives exist today to ensure microgrids are super efficient and economical for managing businesses and communities. I believe we need more enabling technologies to inspire businesses to invest and act. This is our mission at www.veckta.com - where to build, why you should build, what you should build and then who you should build it with - automated and enabled with software.
As more systems are deployed the benefits will be realized and celebrated, systems will come down further in price and more will adopt. Shifting from passive consumers to active users - in a commoditized busienss environment this is an incredible way to realize more profitable outcomes. Utilities (in their form today but likely having needed to change their commercial models) will need to then embrace, incentivize and figure out how to best manage these incredibly powerful, flexible and dispatchable assets. Exciting times. $68B/yr market, ready to take off!