A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held to celebrate completion of the largest hospital-based, renewable energy microgrid in the U.S., installed at the Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center in Southern California. The system includes 2 megawatts of solar, 9 megawatt-hours of non-lithium ion battery energy storage and 1 megawatt of fuel cells.

Nhu Energy’s digital operating technology controls the startup, shutdown, stable operation, energy management, and optimization of the system, which will provide clean energy and utility bill savings year-round, while also helping to support hospital emergency power needs by running in parallel on the emergency bus with on-site diesel generation. The microgrid has capacity to serve all of the hospital’s emergency power needs for 10 continuous hours.

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