Power Novato

Microgrid Project

By Pranav Pannala, James Wreden, Christa Tsao and Chris

Kenney.
 Overall Electricity Use
● Commercial activities in Novato use about 5,532 kWh/month
is the
kWh/month number of
kilowatt
● Novato residents usually use 573 kWh/month hours used in
a month
● Industries use 53,013 kWh/month for industrial needs

● In total, about 59,118 kWh/month are used in

Novato.
Location

To provide a strong advantage, we

plan to construct our Microgrid on Mt.

Burdell. Not only is there lots of free

space, but there are higher wind levels

at this elevation, which would enable

the wind turbines to work more

effectively.
Solar

Solar Power is power generated by harnessing the sun’s rays that

shine on the earth. We would do this by using solar panel systems.
They would cost $8.70 per watt, so 4 kilowatts cost will be
$34,800. The panels will be facing South, East, and West. There
will be 100 panels facing East, 200 facing West, and 492 facing
South. This would have a cost of $221,400.
Wind

Wind power is the use of wind or air through a turbine to generate

energy. This form of creating energy is green because it uses no fossil
fuels. They are greatly renewable because as long as there is wind, there is
power. We will have 30 10kW capacity turbines. The price would be
about $48,000-$65,000 per wind turbine and each turbine would produce
about 1825 kWh.
 Electricity Storage

We will store our over generated energy in

ESS long-duration batteries. This battery uses an

iron-based electrolyte to produce over 20,000

cycles of power with very little to no maintenance.

The batteries are also supposed to stay stable for

an unlimited number of deep-cycle charge and

discharge cycles with zero degradation.

Energy Transportation
Like most microgrids,
our microgrid will use
underground high
voltage wires. We
estimate that we will
need about 2 miles of
wire for our grid, giving
us a cost of $7,392.
 Total Cost
The total cost of everything, including the maintenance cost
which would end up being about $10,500 because you
need to clean the solar panels once every six months,

would be $1,879,322.
Overgeneration

Our grid generates extra energy in case

anything happens. Each month, we generate
about 135% of what we need to power the city of
Novato.
Thanks for listening!