When a storm took down the regional grid, the district hospital switched to its own microgrid in under a second. Theatres, intensive care and the cold chain for vaccines kept running.
The microgrid pairs a rooftop and carport solar array with four Store 500 battery containers. Grid Brain forecasts the hospital’s load and the weather, keeping enough charge in reserve for exactly this kind of night.
Over thirty hours the hospital ran on solar and storage alone. The diesel generators, which the hospital kept as a last resort, never started.
By Reinnder Newsroom