“appMicrogrid Technologies: Micro-Industry or Big Business?”
“In early 2015, appreceived a special designation as an i6 Innovation Center through the US Economic Development Administration. The i6 challenge, a competitive, nationwide grant application, issued twenty-six awards to fund the creation of regional innovation centers aimed at supporting startup creation, innovation, and commercialization.
One of those i6 challenge awardees was a team led by the app. The team includes partners from the appCenter for Energy and Power, the University of appFairbanks Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization, and the University of appAnchorage Business Enterprise Institute.”
Read the full article in the appBusiness Monthly.
http://www.akbizmag.com/Alaska-Business-Monthly/August-2015/Alaska-Microgrid-Technologies-Micro-Industry-or-Big-Business/
Illustration of microgrid community in rural Alaska. Image credit ACEP.