The Penentanguishene Micro Grid will be able to operate either connected to the grid grid mode or disconnected from the grid island mode. It will enable PowerStream to provide power to customers even when there is a loss of supply from the provincial grid.
Micro Grids work in the same way as large-scale electricity delivery systems or a provincial grid, but instead of delivering electricity to hundreds of thousands or millions of customers at a time, they can be scaled down and customized to meet the needs of communities or even just one customer. Micro Grids rely on a mix of clean and renewable sources of generation and can operate independently or feed electricity back to the provincial grid.
The Penetanguishene Micro Grid will be operated from PowerStreamÂ’s System Control Centre at the companyÂ’s head office in Vaughan with remote accessibility for performance monitoring via the internet by the companyÂ’s project partner, the Korea Electric Power Corporation KEPCO.