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Microgrids,
. . . built around cheap renewable power, and battery storage, are now the
. . . . . . Fastest way to restore power,
. . . . . . Simplest,
. . . . . . Cheapest Energy, and
. . . . . . Builds resilience into the grid, against the next disaster.

Case studies from Japan, India, and Hawaii also make clear,
. . . the only technologies that can simultaneously deliver the:
. . . . . . fastest,
. . . . . . cheapest,
. . . . . . cleanest, and
. . . . . . most disaster-resilient rebuild possible are,
. . . micro-grids, built around renewables, and storage.
That’s been proven by:
. . . . . . Japan after the tsunami that caused the Fukushima meltdown,
. . . . . . India after recent monsoons, and
. . . . . . Florida after Hurricane Irma,

Florida homes with solar panels, and batteries,
. . . that lost power from Irma in the early hours of Monday, September 11,
. . . were able to restore power in a few hours when the sun came up.
Long before others, they could use lights, refrigerators, and wifi.

Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico’s,
. . . 55% of the transmission towers, and wrecked
. . . 90% of the distribution network.

In less than a decade, more than
. . . 1/2 million people in India who had lacked electricity,
. . . now have off-grid solar.
As one expert on distributed solar in the region said,
. . . “Solar power has:
. . . . . . changed people’s lives,
. . . . . . improved their health, and
. . . . . . enhanced their livelihood opportunities,
. . . . . . while benefiting the environment.”

9-29-2017 Source:  #Renewables + Batteries