Building an Energy Efficient Microgrid

The Siemens Princeton Microgrid project was designed to address the challenges of decarbonization and distributed energy resilience. Besides increasing energy efficiency of on-campus buildings, the campus has documented reduced CO2 emissions of 50% until 2020 thanks to the solar-powered microgrid. Overall energy costs were lowered while cost savings increased. Through storms and outages, power remained stable and secure. Even better, it’s all scalable. Below are recommendations based on the lessons learned at Princeton Siemens Campus for a phased approach to building an energy efficient microgrid.