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Microgrids and Resiliency

Fully integrated distributed energy solutions to help businesses, asset managers and utility operators control their costs and minimize their environmental impact. Expert engineers design every energy system in-house — from autonomous microgrids to emergency backup power to end-to-end energy efficiency improvements. 


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Advanced microgrid systems designed to deliver continuous and redundant power generation — even during blackouts and other grid disruptions. Through our partnership with PowerSecure, a part of the Southern Company, NRTC can offer microgrid solutions that integrate seamlessly with the existing electricity network, which autonomously generate and store energy so that you can continue powering your operations. Equally important, they are source-agnostic, allowing you to balance your energy mix for increased redundancy and resiliency. 


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An electric utility’s commercial and industrial (C&I) members represent an important part of their load profile. Through PowerSecure, NRTC can help our co-op members provide tangible demand management to these valuable members — leveraging back-up generation to meet back-up power requirements and avoid high-cost power and demand charges. Best of all, it does so by leveraging assets the C&I member already has in place. 

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Suwannee Valley Begins AMI Project

NRTC and Itron representatives gathered last week in the offices of Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative, Live Oak, FL, to kick off a major advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) project. The multi-year deployment will eventually link about 28,500 electric meters, including more than 27,000 rural residences.

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Vermont Electric Cooperative Launches Advanced AMI Deployment 

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Commenters Tie Data Center Needs to Deregulation and Grid Modernization

NTIA recently received comments in response to its investigation into internet data center facilities. There is wide agreement that the nation will require more data centers to serve artificial intelligence applications. Internet systems developers, such as Cisco and Open AI, said NTIA should encourage the development of smart grid systems to meet growing need for electricity to power the centers. Some said data centers could appear in rural areas, but it will require development of a technically qualified workforce.

Webinar Offers Answers to Complex Microgrid Questions

Many electric co-ops don’t know where to start when planning to deploy, operate and maintain a microgrid. NRTC and it’s microgrid partner, PowerSecure, led an NRECA webinar demonstrating that microgrids can be beneficial in the right situations and with careful customization of the solution to meet cooperatives’ needs.

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