There is a lot of activity around adding renewable projects to isolated system and/or behind the meter. Renewable generation development has matured a lot in the last 10 years, and solar has come down in price to the point that the risk of installation is very low. The yellow line is PV solar and the […]
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Electric Thermal Storage
There is a lot of talk about chemical based energy storage (batteries), but before batteries there was thermal storage. Thermal storage is similar to using bricks or water for thermal mass, it limits the thermal swings by slowly releasing the thermal energy into the space even after the heat source (sun, fire, etc) has gone […]
What is the Point of Common Coupling
I have been working with a couple regulated utilities over the last few years. Neither of these utilities have a lot of small independent power producers (IPPs). There may be a couple of edge cases, or medium sized wind farms, but as a rule they generate all the energy they need. The grid is getting […]
2020 is a big year
Last year there was a lot of change here at JMK Engineering, and we worked on some very cool projects. 2020 is shaping up to be another crazy year. I’m working on project summaries that I will be publishing in the next few weeks. Coming this year Last year I focused on electrical safety webinars […]