Stadler: Pure solar and battery microgrids are uneconomic for outage resilience
Michael Stadler · Frontier Forum: Future-proofing data center power infrastructure · Apr 7, 2025 · at 19:08
Michael Stadler, CTO of microgrid design platform Xendee, discusses why cost-effective microgrids require combining renewables with gas-fired backup generation rather than relying entirely on oversized battery storage.
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“If you, if you're focusing on costs and carbon emissions, you will always see a combination between renewable technologies and In some gas fart engines for backup reasons or for resiliency reasons, right? It's pretty bad idea from an economic perspective to have a very large battery PV system renewables to carry you through an outage event because this really adds up.”
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