Optimizing a microgrid design to meet a facility owner/operator's specific resilience targets — whether in hours, days, or weeks— usually is accomplished by 1) reducing the amount of load the system needs to serve for some or all of the resilience period; 2) increasing energy. Optimizing a microgrid design to meet a facility owner/operator's specific resilience targets — whether in hours, days, or weeks— usually is accomplished by 1) reducing the amount of load the system needs to serve for some or all of the resilience period; 2) increasing energy. NLR has been involved in the modeling, development, testing, and deployment of microgrids since 2001. A microgrid is a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources that acts as a single controllable entity with respect to the grid. It can connect and disconnect from the grid to. What is a microgrid? The answer depends on who is asking and answering. As renewable penetration increases and loads fluctuate unpredictably, storage is no longer just a backup—it actively shapes how energy is produced, stored, and consumed. Operators are constantly. Authorized by Section 40101(d) of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants program is designed to strengthen and modernize America's power grid against wildfires, extreme weather, and other natural disasters that are exacerbated by the climate. Very small microgrids are sometimes called nanogrids when they serve a single building or load. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in supporting numerous DoD projects, including the microgrid at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. 2 The report is structured following NREL's microgrid design process.