A summer camp in Frederick, Maryland is operating a campus microgrid that leverages Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) to achieve an immediate return on investment while delivering green energy.
The net zero carbon microgrid serves Bar-T Mountainside Summer Camp, a 115-acre campus that offers after-school childcare, summer day camps, outdoor education and corporate team building and events.
The microgrid project stands out as the first commercial and industrial facility in Frederick County to employ PACE, a program that allows property owners to finance the up-front cost of energy projects and pay the costs back over time with their property taxes.
“It was designed to be cash-flow positive on day one — savings are greater than the PACE debt service. Thus, the system delivers 100% green power, resiliency and ‘savings as-a-service’,” said Brent Hollenbeck, founder and CTO of TimberRock Advanced Energy, which leads the project.
The system is designed to produce energy savings, energy resilience and new opportunities to generate revenues via market arbitrage.
Campus microgrid delivers 100% green energy
Bar-T’s microgrid has roughly 100 kW of PV across the facility’s various roof tops. Three separate distributed battery systems collectively provide about 35 kWh of energy storage capacity, according to TimberRock.
All of the PV arrays are islandable and capable of operating independently during grid outages.
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