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storage supply without requiring substantial outside investment in stand-alone batteries. Implementing clean energy solutions Ultimately, Mérida aims to encourage practical, stable developments by using testbed experiments to work through technical challenges and regulatory hurdles, clearing the path for more widespread adoption as technology advances. "If no one takes that risk to develop a novel application, the solutions will not develop,” said Mérida. “Once it's proven that these solutions work, and you have a business case, then other applications can emerge. "So, we're trying to come up with open standards, ways of connecting these pieces of infrastructure, and policies that will make sense on a large scale."

UBC President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon gets assistance from Jake Grant, P.Eng., HTEC, fueling up at the SHED at the official opening in June. Photo: Paul Joseph/UBC Applied Science hydropower begins to point toward

will intelligently control that. If we produce energy and want to sell it back to the grid, the microgrid would also handle that. So, any pathway for energy to flow is being controlled internally."

infrastructures that can make renewable energy sources as reliable as status quo solutions. The system has the added benefit of allowing independent energy production using an off-grid solar power system with an abundant

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