(2011-12-15) Mobile Microgrid

To date, this vast market potential has failed to overcome the technical and non-technical barriers impeding adoption of DG (Distributed Generation of Electric Energy) (MicroGrid) technologies in mainstream markets. In the latter instance, those barriers include anti-competitive industry practices, regulatory incompetence, stakeholder myopia and institutional inertia. The biggest technical challenge to expanding deployment of distributed-energy resources (DER) is the lack of plug-and-play systems available on the market... Now, a clutch of Clean Energy companies claim claim to have cracked the code on specific pieces of the plug-and-play puzzle... Sky Built Power... The MTM is a self-contained unit that produces power from multiple generation sources, including fossil-fuel generators, solar arrays, wind, fuel cells and batteries. The packaged system ships with rapidly deployable solar blankets, wind turbines backup batteries and a generator. The slogan says it all: Mobile Hybrid Power System Built on Military-Grade Trailers—Power in Under an Hour! See 2011-05-12-RobbOmnivorousEnergyProduction.