S&C seamlessly integrates hardware, controls, and services for microgrids.
There’s no reason to panic when you partner with the industry’s most reliable microgrid solutions provider. S&C is the leader in complete microgrid solutions because we know that for microgrids to function properly, every piece of the puzzle must fit perfectly. Our solutions go beyond the hardware, ensuring the controls, communications, and integration of our solution are all properly configured from the start.
Choose a partner with unmatched experience.
S&C gives you the power to feel comfortably in control of your project. Leveraging our extensive experience designing and building microgrid systems, we’ll develop a customized solution for you that will anticipate future demands and ensure reliability.
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Microgrid Guidebooks
Prepare for your microgrid. Navigating microgrids can be a daunting task, but we are here to make it easy. We’ve consolidated the latest research along with our industry-leading expertise into three guidebooks. These tools will help you evaluate whether a microgrid is right for your needs, prepare for integrating a microgrid, and plan for the long-term care of your microgrid.
Is a Microgrid Right for You?
Learn MoreHow to Build a Microgrid
Learn MoreShort- and Long-Term Microgrid Care
Learn MoreGridMaster® Microgrid Control System
This control system is the brain of a microgrid. It is the key to unlocking the microgrid’s benefits, and it is the critical piece that makes the microgrid “smart.”
Designed specifically for microgrids, S&C’s unique network architecture offers the intelligence and performance required to control, monitor, and communicate with your microgrid’s generation sources, loads, and distribution equipment.
Learn more about the GridMaster Microgrid Control System.
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Energy Storage
Energy storage enables microgrids to respond to variability or loss of generation sources. S&C has more experience integrating energy storage systems than any other microgrid provider.
Learn MoreExpertise
Microgrids require the integration of assets that were never built to work together, let alone be designed to adapt to life without a utility connection. This is where S&C’s broad range of expertise is indispensable, making microgrid projects easy and seamless while saving you money by getting it right the first time.
Hardware
Learn MoreIntegration Services
Learn MoreControls
Learn MoreDeployment Services
Learn MoreProject Map
Case Studies
Examples of S&C’s proven microgrid solutions around the world.
North Bay Microgrid
A microgrid providing a resiliency hub and refuge to a Canadian community.
Watch VideoOncor Microgrid
A complex series of interconnected microgrids for a major Texas utility.
Watch VideoCity of Field Microgrid
An energy storage-backed microgrid providing support during outages in Canada.
Watch VideoPEER Certification Project
The Ameren microgrid is the first utility-scale microgrid to achieve a Gold PEER Certification. Watch our video below.
- Microgrid Provides Resiliency Hub with Sustainable Power to Community
- S&C Builds Ameren a Microgrid To Study Distribution Use Cases
- S&C Engineers Overcome Real-World Challenges Constructing a Groundbreaking Microgrid
- Canada’s First Utility-Scale Energy Storage System Islands Remote Town During Outages
- Island Energy Storage Reduces Air Pollution Emissions
- Smart Microgrid Goal: Perfect Power
- Mission-Critical Military Base Enhances Power Resiliency with S&C’s Microgrid Control System
- What Regulators Need to Know About Microgrids
- Maintenance is Key: Unlocking Successful Microgrids for the U.S. DoD
- Microgrids and DER: Are We Getting the Terminology Wrong?
- Hybrid-Fueled Microgrids: The Future is Now
- Some Power Utility Considerations Post-Maria for Puerto Rico
- A Formula Emerges for Utility Performance Success
- Time for Electric-Power Industry to Pick up the Pace?
- Building Unintentional Microgrids on Purpose
- Microgrid Market Maturity a Good Sign for Solid Growth
- Utility Opportunities from Premium Power Microgrids: A Chance to Grow and Prosper
- Maintaining Power While Testing Microgrids is Often Critical
- For Utility Microgrid Adoption to Grow, Do We Need a Name Change?
- The Challenges of Microgrid Deployment
- What’s Ahead for the Future of Microgrids?
- Why Does a Microgrid Cost What it Costs?
- Microgrids as Non-Wires Alternatives
- Post Irma: Will the Southeast become the New Northeast for Microgrids?
- Analysis: Will the Perry Study Actually Help Microgrids and Energy Storage?
- S&C Electric’s IPERC Wins Designation for Military Microgrid Controller
- Most Read Microgrid Articles & the Trends They Reveal for 2017
- Pennsylvania Tackles a Big One: Who Pays for Utility Microgrids?
- A Steady Ride Up for the Microgrid Market in 2017?
- Military Microgrids Steeply Cut Energy Costs Says New Study
- Creating a Smart City? Do this First
- Why Energy Storage May be Bigger than You Think
- Ameren Microgrid Goes Live as First in Utility Cybersecurity
- Building Unintentional Microgrids on Purpose
- Microgrids Plus Feeders Equal a Winning Combination
- The Growing Problem of Momentary Power Outages: What Can Utilities Do?