Typical neighborhood public schools are the Keystones of (sub)urban communities. They're often election polling places, emergency service centers, where day-care centers are located, & where youth sports & other activities take place. In larger communities, they're widely distributed, to serve the surrounding residential residential neig…
Typical neighborhood public schools are the Keystones of (sub)urban communities. They're often election polling places, emergency service centers, where day-care centers are located, & where youth sports & other activities take place. In larger communities, they're widely distributed, to serve the surrounding residential residential neighborhood, along with nearby commercial properties. As mentioned, schools most often include large paved asphalt parking lots & playgrounds.
Schools & other public facilities, along with neighborhood shopping centers, business parks & large apartments & condos, all with large parking lots, are the ideal under-utilized place to rapidly develop resilient neighborhood micro grids, with large solar canopies, stationary batteries & Vehicle-2-Grid chargers. Right where most energy consumers live & work. No utility interconnection queues or NIMBY delays, or new transmission, site acquisition, or other site improvement spending required.
Jerry, I'm totally there with you. I do have to wonder, even for micro grids, whether schools will still need substantive upfitting of transformers, lines, etc. to be the supplier for a large number of houses around them. I'm sure it'll be a case-by-case basis.
Typical neighborhood public schools are the Keystones of (sub)urban communities. They're often election polling places, emergency service centers, where day-care centers are located, & where youth sports & other activities take place. In larger communities, they're widely distributed, to serve the surrounding residential residential neighborhood, along with nearby commercial properties. As mentioned, schools most often include large paved asphalt parking lots & playgrounds.
Schools & other public facilities, along with neighborhood shopping centers, business parks & large apartments & condos, all with large parking lots, are the ideal under-utilized place to rapidly develop resilient neighborhood micro grids, with large solar canopies, stationary batteries & Vehicle-2-Grid chargers. Right where most energy consumers live & work. No utility interconnection queues or NIMBY delays, or new transmission, site acquisition, or other site improvement spending required.
Jerry, I'm totally there with you. I do have to wonder, even for micro grids, whether schools will still need substantive upfitting of transformers, lines, etc. to be the supplier for a large number of houses around them. I'm sure it'll be a case-by-case basis.