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CHICAGO--The City of Chicago has completed a pioneering distributed energy project that allows the police department's backup emergency generators, each producing nearly one megawatt (MW) of power, to be remotely dispatched, monitored, and controlled. In the event of a power shortage, the police department can easily switch from utility-supplied to on-site generated power. That should mean no downtime, no 911 glitches, and no additional costs for expensive peak electricity.
Six critical emergency backup generators--four at police stations and two at senior citizen cooling centers--were linked to form the equivalent of a 10-MW power plant. Now, the generators can run independently of the CoinEd power grid, ensuring the police department's critical equipment, such as telephones and computers, is supplied ...