Title :
A green prison: The Santa Rita Jail campus microgrid
Author :
Marnay, C. ; DeForest, N. ; Lai, J.
Author_Institution :
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab. (Berkeley Lab.), Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
A large microgrid project is nearing completion at Alameda County´s twenty-two-year-old 45 ha 4,000-inmate Santa Rita Jail, about 70 km east of San Francisco. Often described as a green prison, it has a considerable installed base of distributed energy resources (DER) including an eight-year old 1.2 MW PV array, a five-year old 1 MW fuel cell with heat recovery, and considerable efficiency investments. Fig. 1 is an aerial depiction of the Jail with the PV rooftop modules clearly visible.
Keywords :
building integrated photovoltaics; distributed power generation; fuel cells; Santa Rita Jail campus microgrid; distributed energy resources; efficiency investments; fuel cell; green prison; heat recovery; photovoltaic array; photovoltaic rooftop; power 1 MW; power 1.2 MW; Batteries; Control systems; Electricity; Fuel cells; Investments; Reliability; PV; buildings; cogeneration; dispersed storage and generation; energy efficiency; fuel cells; microgrids; power quality; power system economics;
Conference_Titel :
Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2727-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1944-9925
DOI :
10.1109/PESGM.2012.6345235
