New Year’s Resolutions for the Microgrid Industry from 4 Leading Companies
What needs to be done in 2019 to spur more microgrid growth? We asked four microgrid industry leaders – Ameresco, S&C Electric, Schneider Electric and Siemens. Here are their New Year’s resolutions, lightly edited for brevity and clarity.
- Will Agate, Ameresco’s vice president – microgrid services, expects 2019 to go down as another game changer for the evolving microgrid industry, but says the industry needs to focus on three priorities to reach its full potential.
- S&C Electric’s David Chiesa cites the need to work on financing and regulatory change.
- Mark Feasel, Schneider Electric’s vice president, electric utility segment & smart grid, sees microgrid technology increasingly serving humanitarian efforts.
- Clark Wiedetz, director of microgrids and renewable integration for Siemens Digital Grid, says that for any market or solution to become sustainable and repeatable, there must be standardization to make profitability more predictable. He cites three types of standardization needed within the microgrid industry.
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