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Council receives update on town energy‑generation microgrid project; library site faces constraints
Summary
Staff briefed the council on a planned solar microgrid project for town facilities, saying the town will issue an RFP this spring. The library site has limited canopy options because of a sanitary‑district easement, high‑voltage lines and large redwood trees; council asked staff to include rate‑of‑return analysis in RFP evaluation.
Town staff told the Moraga Town Council on March 26 that the town is preparing a request for proposals (RFP) for an energy‑generation “microgrid” intended to provide resilience to planned and unplanned power outages at municipal facilities.
Public Works Director and Town Engineer Sean Knapp described the project as a possible combination of rooftop and parking‑canopy solar, battery storage and backup generators. “This is a solar microgrid system, which is composed of, solar panels, could have a a backup generator, and it could have backup, power, power battery energy, storage,” Knapp said.
Knapp and consultant Larry Thiess said staff and the consultant Clean Coalition have completed site analyses for three town facilities — town hall/council…
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