Southeast’s First Community-Scale Microgrid Nears Completion In Hoover
By Katie Bolton
Checking in on Smart Neighborhood™ – part three
Construction on the microgrid that will serve Smart Neighborhood™ by Alabama Power is about 85 percent complete, and is scheduled to be finished by the end of 2017.
Smart Neighborhood is a state-of-the-art community of 62 homes in Signature Homes’ new Reynolds Landing community in Ross Bridge in Hoover. The first homeowners are scheduled to move into their homes later this month. Once completed, the microgrid will include a 330 kWh AC solar array, about 600 kWh of battery storage and 400 kWh of natural gas backup generation. It is the first community-scale microgrid in the Southeast.
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