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"text": "Mike Voll on the innovative approach of developing a microgrid concept in a small commercial community"
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Mike Voll was published in the June 2018 edition of IEEE's Smart Grid Newsletter. His article focused on the David Johnston Research and Technology Park microgrid. Stantec is developing a microgrid concept where a small commercial community can participate in a microgrid to provide resiliency, energy cost reduction and energy cost certainty in a setting that could be replicated across North America and beyond.
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