Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton Windrows Independent Living Community

The Princeton Windrows independent living community is comprised of three interconnected buildings containing apartment-style condominiums as well as dispersed villas and townhomes just outside of the city. The community currently relies on diesel generators to provide backup power in the case of a grid outage. But after Hurricane Sandy and other major storms hit the east coast over the past few years, they are interested in exploring and quantifying the enhanced resiliency that a combined solar, storage, and diesel microgrid could provide.

With our partner American Microgrid Solutions, muGrid Analytics supported Princeton Windrows in analyzing their options for enhancing the resiliency of their campus. We helped them think through what resiliency means to them, including how they might envision their daily operations in the days and weeks following a natural disaster that causes an extended grid outage. This included helping them to analyze their critical loads, their onsite fuel reserves, and then determining the optimal sizing of solar, storage, and generation systems that would help them achieve these goals at a minimum life cycle cost.