After weathering increasingly severe wildfires and other climate-related disasters, Santa Rosa Junior College realized that it needed a more reliable and resilient power grid. That’s why the college enlisted the help of PXiSE Energy Solutions to develop a high-performance microgrid, powered by AVEVA PI System. The new, cutting-edge solution is helping the school reduce its greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining a resilient and reliable power supply.
“Most of the microgrid solutions that exist today are more customized, so that they are not easily transferable from one site to another site. But because we built it on a data platform like [AVEVA PI System], it allows us to do the replication using the asset framework.”
Patrick Lee, CEO of PXiSE Energy Solutions
Goals
- Improve power grid resilience and reliability
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Challenges
- Power grids are becoming increasingly complex, distributed, and unpredictable
- Increasingly frequent natural disasters put tremendous strain on the power grid
Solution
Results
- The new, data-driven microgrid helps SRJC significantly lower emissions
- Expected savings of $330,000 per year
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