{"id":116693,"date":"2020-12-05T08:25:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T16:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/what-really-makes-a-microgrid-a-microgrid"},"modified":"2020-12-05T08:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T16:25:05","slug":"what-really-makes-a-microgrid-a-microgrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/what-really-makes-a-microgrid-a-microgrid","title":{"rendered":"What really makes a microgrid, a microgrid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-really-makes-a-microgrid-a-microgrid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though there are many specific definitions of a microgrid, at its core a microgrid means the ability of a distributed energy resource, typically solar PV and battery energy storage, to both interact with the utility grid and stand alone with no utility. From a technical perspective, what are the key elements to achieve this functionality?<\/p>\n<p>1) Managing the point of interconnection (POI) 2) Power equipment mode shifting.<\/p>\n<p>\/*** Advertisement ***\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though there are many specific definitions of a microgrid, at its core a microgrid means the ability of a distributed energy resource, typically solar PV and battery energy storage, to both interact with the utility grid and stand alone with no utility. From a technical perspective, what are the key elements to achieve this functionality? [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}