Seat Pleasant, Maryland

Seat Pleasant Smart City Project

Located on the western edge of Washington, DC, the city of Seat Pleasant, Maryland aims to establish themselves as a Smart City of Excellence. They have partnered with IBM Smarter Cities to develop an Intelligent Operations Center which will provide city managers and leaders a holistic, operational view across all departments. In addition to using data to improve security, safety, and social services, the city also seeks to improve their resilience, particularly during natural disasters when the electricity grid may be compromised. When completed, Seat Pleasant will demonstrate that smaller cities — they have a population of 5,000 — can be smart cities too.

muGrid Analytics, with our partners American Microgrid Solutions and Clean Energy Group, is helping Seat Pleasant evaluate the feasibility of incorporating solar plus storage on their city building. The solar plus storage system would reduce utility costs for the city during normal operation, and then, along with potential conventional generation, be able to island into a microgrid to supply backup power during a grid outage.