Microgrids for schools & government facilities. Resilience your community counts on.
Keep critical public buildings powered through outages — and put idle energy budgets to work between them — with OATI’s microgrid solutions for schools and government entities.
When storms hit or the grid goes down, schools, municipal buildings, and community centers become the places people turn to. A microgrid keeps those critical facilities running when it matters most — and between emergencies, it can trim energy costs and advance the sustainability goals that public budgets and mandates increasingly require.
What matters for school and government microgrids
Resilience for critical facilities. Microgrids keep shelters, schools, and community resilience hubs powered through outages — the role they played keeping New Orleans hubs running after Hurricane Francine and helping a North Carolina town recover after Helene.
Stewardship of public budgets. Automatic optimization and DER dispatch reduce day-to-day energy costs, stretching constrained public dollars further.
Funding-ready planning. OATI’s microgrid planning and design services help you scope projects that align with grant and resilience-funding requirements from the start.
Community benefit and sustainability. Cleaner, more reliable local power serves both public-safety and decarbonization mandates at once.
How we support school and government microgrid projects
Renewable Energy Partners needed an advanced control platform to establish a community resilience hub for Minneapolis Public Schools featuring a total of 1,250 kW of solar power and 2,000 kWs of energy storage across four public school buildings.
During normal operations, GridMind® orchestrates resources to pass lower energy costs to the school district while providing islandable backup power during outages.
Learn more in this interview with Renewable Energy Partners CEO Jamez Staples.
Resources to keep your
microgrid project on track.
Battery storage investment playbook
This playbook outlines how modern grid orchestration can unlock the full potential of utility-scale batteries and support a more resilient, flexible and economically optimized grid. Utility leaders share real-world examples and proven strategies for delivering enhanced grid reliability, operational savings and revenue opportunities in utility-scale battery adoption.
OATI GridMind® Datasheet
OATI GridMind® addresses the needs of many commercial and industrial businesses who are looking for more stable energy prices by self-generating power with a microgrid.
Case study: OATI real-time DERMS at NCEMC
North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation (NCEMC), a G&T supporting 26 electric cooperatives, needed a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) to manage and orchestrate demand response programs for each of its member cooperatives.
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