How to Plan and Implement a Micro Grid - A Case Study
Wildfires are a growing threat to California communities, and while “wildfire season” is not a new concept for the Golden State, wildfires are becoming larger and more destructive year over year. The Santa Rosa Junior College, a 100-year-old community college with a 100+ acre campus serving over 60,000 students annually, is in wildfire-prone Sonoma County which experienced the impacts of wildfire firsthand in the 2019 Kincade and 2020 Glass fires.
This webinar, presented by CSE’s Director, Distributed Energy Resources of Demetra (Dema) Tzamaras, will provide a case study on the flexible, fully renewable urban microgrid installed on the SRJC campus. The microgrid is made up of three different kinds of distributed energy resources (DERs) including electrochemical battery storage, solar photovoltaics and load management devices, and it supports over 20 campus buildings. CSE was involved in the planning, design, construction and measurement and evaluation of the microgrid system and will share lessons learned and best practices for installing a microgrid in California.
About the Speaker
Demetra (Dema) Tzamaras is a Director in the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) team at the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE). She is a licensed civil engineer (CA C90123) with over 8 years of experience in consulting, project management, and clean energy program design. At CSE, Dema supports a variety of DER demonstration and evaluation projects and incentive programs. She currently manages a million-dollar California Energy Commission (CEC) Energy Program Investment Charge (EPIC) grant project to develop a California Energy Storage Permitting Guidebook. Through this effort, Dema has worked closely with energy storage industry stakeholders, including Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs), energy storage installers, and codes and standards organizations to gather best practices in efficient energy storage permitting.