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LaDuke: Power goes back to the future

Pine Point Elementary School installed solar and is now 100% electric, with a battery-backed project planned to provide full energy during outages.
Facing power from distant coal plants in North Dakota and dam projects in Manitoba, Pine Point village sought local control as transmission and generation waste about 61% of energy.
OATI, a grid-software provider for utilities including Great River Energy, Ottertail Power and Xcel, supports the MISO region's shift toward solar, wind, batteries and distributed microgrids.
Simple solar thermal panels can cut heating bills by up to 30%, and installing solar costs about one-third less than new coal, benefiting homeowners in Pine Point village and local projects.
As coal retires, rural cooperatives and community-scale projects are positioned to shape the future grid, while White Earth tribal planners met OATI to study grid management for local generation and microgrids.

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LaDuke: Power goes back to the future

It was like that movie “Back to the Future.” I traveled to a meeting with White Earth Tribal representatives and 8th Fire Solar representatives to meet with some energy industry professionals in Minneapolis at OATI (Open Access Technology International). OATI supplies software to manage the grid which moves electrical power around the country and around the world. We discussed renewable energy, the future, and how local communities’ utilities an…

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