Ask Mayfield Anything — Mayfield Renewables

Workshops

Helping suppliers and end users understand what’s happening in solar and energy storage

Join Mayfield’s live webinar series featuring diverse perspectives and expert opinions on the most relevant topics in solar and energy storage. Ask Mayfield Anything attendees hear from various presenters in manufacturing, codemaking, project permitting, and fire safety.

During webinar planning and straight through live recordings, Mayfield accepts questions from attendees and blends them into the discussion. After each episode, attendees come away with a well-rounded understanding about industry best practices, product solutions, and technology trends.

Our Most Recent AMA

Lessons Learned from an Urban Microgrid

October 29, 2024

Microgrid (PV+ESS) systems are inherently more complex than systems that do not need to island from the local grid. More and more of these systems are being requested, sold, designed, and built to achieve critical resilience functions throughout the country.

However, due in part to the ownership and maintenance of systems often decoupled from the engineering of systems, there are few case studies available that can provide lessons learned across the project life cycle.

In this edition of Ask Mayfield Anything, Ryan Mayfield was joined by engineering colleague, Craig Collins, from PAE to share important lessons learned from a microgrid PAE engineered, owns, and operates on their living building in Portland, Oregon. This system had additional challenges associated with the urban area network interconnection and requirements in the City of Portland. The discussion shed light on lessons from developing in an urban center and grid-forming vs following inverter stability challenges.