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Microgrids are more than emergency backups—they’re engineered for seamless interaction with the grid and autonomous operation when needed. Microgrids are designed to operate in both grid-tied and island modes, so they must intelligently manage energy balancing and load control. In grid-tied mode, they function much like Solar + BESS systems, delivering peak shaving, demand response, and power quality support.
When disconnected from the grid, they turn to island mode, and energy storage becomes the system anchor, maintaining stability and continuity. While traditional generators can play a role, the shift is toward cleaner, battery-based solutions that support long-term resiliency and decarbonization goals.
This dual-mode functionality is at the core of modern microgrid engineering—and it’s shaping the future of distributed energy. Whether it’s your first project or your fiftieth, we help you own confidently — for the long term!
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For microgrid systems there are two modes. There's grid-tied mode and there's island mode. So for grid-tied mode in many ways it operates in a similar way to your typical Solar + BESS grid-tied interconnection. So the benefits of battery storage as they relate to the utility grid in grid-tied mode it's the same for microgrids and for those other systems that don't have the island capability and those benefits include and those benefits include peak shaving, demand load response, managing power quality. Energy storage plays a key role. It's the anchor of the off-grid island mode of the microgrid system much of the time. There are other resources that can it too including traditional generators. But we're moving away from those. The value of energy storage is it's battery technology but it's not consuming fossil fuels the way those traditional sources are. So it's cleaner than dirty old diesel and natural gas.
