Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Microgrid Development

2019-Present

3 Facilities, 520 kW Solar PV, 1 MWh BESS

muGrid Analytics is a proud member of the technical team that won a Department of Energy grant for energy projects on tribal lands. muGrid did the system sizing and preliminary design for three solar plus storage systems at three separate tribal facilities – a health clinic, a wastewater treatment plant, and an administration office building – that provide both resilience and economic benefits to the tribe.  The systems were commissioned in May 2021, and muGrid provides M&V and ongoing advisory services to the tribe.

muGrid also helped to win a Wisconsin Office of Energy Innovation grant to study a large-scale medium voltage minigrid that comprises the entire main core of tribal facilities in 2021.  The study was completed in June 2022, and is informing tribal energy strategy in the near and long term.