A few years ago when the Brooklyn Microgrid project was announced there was a lot of excitement in the space and how this was going to "change the world", I haven't heard much since it went into operation.
Since then there have been a couple of service interruptions in NYC but I haven't seen any papers or studies done about how this little peer-to-peer network helped the people participating in it.
I went to their website and twitter but there isn't a lot of open information. If you check the "platform" company Exergy you have to give them an email just to "unlock" what turns out to be nothing.
LO3Energy was the umbrella company that owns the microgrid, but it still looks like a start-up website trying to sell something called PANDO.
So, has anyone come across any "in-the-wild" peer-to-peer microgrid projects that are either in the deployment stage of a pilot, or something that is operating NOW? I would love to learn more about how this is being use today.
The technology part is easy, even with tech from 10 years ago, the business part is harder. How do you provide real market conditions at smaller scales where the cost of energy is balanced between the cost of development and levelized cost of energy over longer terms.
For most markets I don't see how these microgrid projects, as smaller entities, can provide energy to the consumer at $0.10/kwh over the life of the project.
