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Microgrids Everywhere: Power Prosperity Across the Americas
Electricity is the foundation of modern life
It keeps hospitals running, preserves food, powers classrooms, and enables businesses and economies to grow. Yet across the Americas, from Caribbean islands to Central American towns to underserved rural and urban communities, energy systems are too often fragile, costly, and dependent on imported fossil fuels.
High prices, diesel reliance, and limited grid capacity suppress opportunity. In many regions electricity costs range between $0.25 and $0.35 per kilowatt hour, more than double the U.S. average. More than 70 percent of power in some markets still comes from diesel, exporting tens of millions of dollars each year instead of keeping wealth local. When extreme weather strikes, outages compound these problems and leave families and businesses in the dark.
Microgrids Everywhere exists to change this reality. We build distributed solar and storage systems that provide affordable, resilient, and community-owned power. Our mission is to turn energy into a foundation for local prosperity across the Americas.
The Challenge
Energy scarcity is economic scarcity. Without affordable and reliable electricity, growth is capped before it begins. The problems are interconnected:
- Families and businesses are burdened by high costs that erode disposable income and margins
- Communities rely on imported fossil fuels that drain local wealth and expose them to volatile markets
- Grid bottlenecks prevent hotels, farms, and factories from expanding, holding back jobs and investment
- Outages caused by hurricanes, wildfires, and floods disrupt daily life and threaten critical services
The Opportunity
Energy is not only a utility. It is economic infrastructure. Every 5 megawatts of new reliable grid headroom can unlock 10 to 15 million dollars in new economic activity. Clean, distributed, and resilient power starts a cycle of growth.
- Families and businesses save 40 to 45 percent on bills through 15-year power purchase agreements at $0.18 per kilowatt hour
- Each 5 megawatts deployed supports 50 to 60 skilled local jobs in construction, operations, and maintenance
- Businesses gain the confidence to expand, from supermarkets protecting refrigeration to farms running irrigation to manufacturers scaling production
- Ownership waterfalls transition equity to communities once investors achieve a 15 percent internal rate of return, ensuring long-term local wealth creation
This is the energy-growth flywheel: resilient power reduces costs, lower costs drive business growth, business growth creates jobs, and jobs strengthen communities.
The Solution
Microgrids Everywhere delivers solar generation paired with lithium iron phosphate battery storage. Systems are orchestrated by advanced Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems and optimized by AI siting tools that cut permitting delays and reduce soft costs by up to 25 percent.
Key features include:
- No upfront cost for hosts, with Microgrids Everywhere responsible for installation, equipment, and maintenance
- Reliable battery backup for critical loads such as refrigeration, water pumps, and communications
- Hurricane-ready and flood-insured designs to withstand extreme conditions
Transparent dashboards showing generation, host savings, and avoided carbon emissions
The economics are demonstrated at three levels:
First, our own pilot modeling: A typical 5 kilowatt host system requires around $30,000 in capital expenditure, generates about $3,800 in annual revenue, and delivers roughly $1,700 in host savings per year. Payback occurs in about five years, and at portfolio scale margins stabilize at 55 to 58 percent EBITDA. These assumptions form the foundation of our 200 kilowatt pilot and subsequent megawatt-scale buildouts.
Second, regional comparables: Community solar and island microgrid projects in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have shown consistent savings of 30 to 40 percent below retail tariffs, with paybacks in the 5 to 7 year range once scaled. Our pricing structure of $0.18 per kilowatt hour fits squarely within this proven band.
Third, global industry benchmarks: Studies from NREL, IRENA, and the World Bank show that distributed solar plus storage can deliver levelized costs of electricity between $0.10 and $0.18 per kilowatt hour in high-cost energy markets. This consistently undercuts imported diesel power, which typically lands between $0.25 and $0.40 per kilowatt hour delivered.
Together, these layers confirm that distributed solar plus storage is not an experimental idea but a commercially validated solution that can be scaled across the Americas.
Social and Environmental Impact
Microgrids Everywhere is not only about power. It is about people and impacting communities everywhere.
- A 25 megawatt buildout avoids more than 16,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually, the equivalent of removing 3,500 cars from the road
- Hosts collectively save about 2 million dollars per year, money that circulates within local economies instead of leaving them
- Majority ownership transitions to local stakeholders within six to seven years, embedding long-term prosperity in the community
- Scholarships, apprenticeships, and training ensure the benefits extend to the next generation of leaders and innovators
A Pan-American Vision
The model is designed to scale across diverse markets:
- Communities in the United States, including rural cooperatives and tribal nations, can achieve energy independence and keep wealth local
- Caribbean islands can cut diesel imports and secure resilience for critical infrastructure and tourism
- Central American towns can empower small farmers, fisheries, and local industries with affordable and stable power
- Mexico and South America can deploy large-scale community and rooftop solar to drive industrial competitiveness
Across the Americas the principle is the same. No community should remain dependent on fragile grids and imported fuels when resilient, clean, and distributed solutions are available today.
The Road Ahead
Microgrids Everywhere grows in phases:
- Pilots of about 200 kilowatts that prove savings and reliability for early hosts such as schools, supermarkets, and municipal sites
- Expansion to one to five megawatts, anchored by hospitals, grocery stores, local businesses, and resorts
- Regional buildouts of 25 to 500 megawatts that displace diesel, unlock grid headroom, and enable new industries
- Ownership transfer (once initial investments plus a 15% return are achieved) through structured waterfalls and buyouts that place control and benefits in local hands
Conclusion
The Americas stand at a decision point. Communities can remain reliant on fragile, fossil-based systems that export wealth, or they can build resilient, affordable, and community-owned power that unlocks a new era of prosperity.
Microgrids Everywhere is not just delivering projects. We are building the economic infrastructure that communities need to thrive. Clean energy is the key to powering opportunities across the Americas.
building from the Light That Already Sustains Us
Powering a New Century
We often talk about the energy transition as if it’s something far off — a distant goal that will take decades to reach.
But if you measure energy correctly, you realize that human civilization is already almost entirely solar powered.
Every crop that grows, every gust of wind, every drop of oil or natural gas — all of it begins as sunlight. The heat that keeps our planet habitable, the photosynthesis that feeds us, the stored fuels that built our modern world — every one of them is just sunlight delayed.
The story of humanity has always been a story of light. What’s changing now is that, for the first time in history, we have the tools to harness it directly — to turn the raw abundance that has always surrounded us into precise, directed power for our communities, our industries, and our people.
Abundance, Not Scarcity
The entire global economy runs on about 18 terawatts of “primary energy.” That’s a rounding error compared to the 12,000 terawatts of sunlight that fall on Earth each day.
Our energy scarcity has never been physical — it’s been logistical. We’ve lacked the precision, storage, and systems to direct that abundance where it’s needed most.
Photovoltaics and battery storage change that equation. They allow us to convert sunlight into exergy — usable, controllable energy that can power homes, schools, and factories at any hour.
When energy becomes local and abundant, cost becomes a function of coordination, not scarcity. Communities that learn to harvest even a fraction of that sunlight will see their energy bills fall, their resilience rise, and their economic independence restored.
Powering the Next Industrial Wave
We’re entering a new chapter in America’s story — one where we bring production home again. The reindustrialization underway across the country isn’t about nostalgia; it’s about necessity.
Semiconductors, steel, electric vehicles, data centers — every modern industry depends on reliable, affordable power. Yet today, energy remains one of the greatest costs and risks to competitiveness.
That’s where distributed solar and storage come in. By pairing industrial corridors, small towns, and regional manufacturing hubs with locally owned microgrids, we can create power that is both cheaper and steadier than anything imported through distant fossil supply chains.
This isn’t an environmental gesture. It’s a productivity revolution — one rooted in physics and economics.
By generating energy near where it’s consumed, we cut transmission losses, stabilize prices, and turn energy from a liability into an asset. Factories that invest in local solar-plus-storage can insulate themselves from volatility and reinvest the savings into wages, R&D, and growth.
That’s how we build an industrial base that’s truly American — not just in ownership, but in operation.
From Consumption to Ownership
For decades, energy has been something we paid for but never owned. The model rewarded utilities for selling more power, not for creating more stability.
But imagine if the grid worked like a community bank. Residents, schools, and businesses could co-own the solar and battery systems that power their neighborhoods. Each month’s bill would help pay down shared infrastructure — until, over time, it becomes an asset that pays dividends instead of debts.
That’s what a microgrid economy looks like: energy as shared equity, not endless expense.
In practical terms, that means lower and more predictable utility bills for families. For local businesses and manufacturers, it means a cost structure that doesn’t fluctuate with global fuel markets. And for the country as a whole, it means a power system grounded in local ownership — harder to disrupt, easier to trust.
What It Means for Everyday People
Energy is one of the few things every American pays for, every single month. It’s built into the price of everything we buy — groceries, rent, transportation, even the food we grow and the schools we heat. When energy becomes cheaper and more stable, it quietly makes life better for everyone.
That’s the beauty of solar and storage: the benefits don’t stop at the people who install the panels. When a community adopts shared solar, local residents can subscribe to a portion of that power without paying anything upfront. Their monthly bills go down, and their energy source becomes more predictable — no more sudden winter spikes or unpredictable rate hikes.
For renters and low-income households, this model can function like a neighborhood power co-op: they get a fixed rate that stays below the market average, while a small share of the revenue helps maintain the local grid and invest in public improvements. It’s a quiet, steady win — lower bills, more reliability, and a stake in the prosperity being built around them.
And for everyone else — the small business owner, the teacher, the retiree on a fixed income — stable energy prices mean predictability. The savings flow downstream: groceries cost less to transport, shops pay less to keep the lights on, towns have more room in their budgets for public services.
Even if you never buy a panel or battery, the system will work for you. That’s the point. The transition to local energy isn’t about who can afford to go solar — it’s about ensuring everyone benefits when our communities do.
Local Power, National Strength
America’s strength has always come from its local ingenuity. When we decentralize energy, we tap into that same spirit. A town that produces its own power can attract businesses, keep money circulating locally, and protect residents from outages.
A city that integrates microgrids into its fabric becomes more resilient — a magnet for investment and innovation.
Scaled across the nation, this becomes a quiet revolution — tens of thousands of local energy networks feeding a modernized grid, collectively reducing costs, improving reliability, and fueling reindustrialization from the bottom up.
The result is not a fragmented system, but a federated one — unified by digital coordination, yet grounded in community control.
The Physics of Renewal
When we talk about “energy,” what we’re really after is exergy — the portion that can do useful work.
Solar and storage technologies give us that precision. They transform diffuse sunlight into directed motion, heat, and light — the same exergy that turns machines, drives data centers, and fuels economies.
Humanity’s ascent began with chemical fuels because that’s what our biology could handle. But now, we’ve evolved the tools to work directly with the Sun itself.
There is no rival to this source, no hidden alternative waiting to be discovered. The cheapest, most abundant energy on Earth has always been — and will always be — sunlight.
A Practical Path Forward
- Empower communities to co-own generation. Expand models like community solar, co-ops, and public-private partnerships that let residents take equity in local systems
- Modernize utility incentives. Reward reliability, efficiency, and grid balancing instead of consumption
- Link reindustrialization to clean energy. Pair every manufacturing hub with its own dedicated solar and storage assets
- Invest in workforce and domestic supply chains. Manufacture panels, batteries, and inverters here at home to create high-quality jobs
- Deploy accessible financing. Use C-PACE, green bonds, and tax incentives to make these projects self-sustaining within a decade
These steps aren’t radical. They’re the logical continuation of the American tradition — building prosperity by mastering the tools of our time.
Mastery Over Sunlight
Our destiny isn’t to find a new energy source that rivals the Sun — there is nothing else.
Our task is mastery: to build a civilization that directs sunlight with precision, equity, and purpose.
Every rooftop and parking lot can become a power plant. Every community can hold a stake in the light that fuels its economy. Every home can become part of a network that strengthens the nation from the grid up.
The real promise of solar and storage is not only lower utility bills — it’s freedom.
Freedom from volatility. Freedom from dependence. Freedom to build again.
The Sun will shine either way. The question is whether we choose to build our future from it.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Communities should have a real stake in the energy systems that power their lives. Today most energy infrastructure is centralized, expensive to maintain, and controlled far away from the people who depend on it. We are building something different. A modern, community-centered approach where solar and battery systems are installed across homes, businesses, parking lots, and small parcels of land to create a resilient local network.
How It Works
We partner with investors, utilities, and local organizations to build decentralized energy systems that reduce costs, strengthen the grid, and create long term financial benefit for the community. Investors earn a clear, transparent return. Once that return is met, ownership and value flow back to the community energy trust. This ensures that the people who live in the community benefit from the system for decades.
Why Transparency Matters
Energy has always felt complicated and distant. We believe the economics should be clear. How much it costs to build a project. How much it produces. How the revenue is shared. When residents understand the system, participation increases and trust grows.
Why This Model Benefits Everyone
Utilities gain a partner that reduces strain on the grid. Investors gain stable, infrastructure-backed returns. Communities gain lower long term energy costs and local ownership. This is not about replacing institutions. It is about creating a more flexible and resilient energy system that works for more people.
Our Vision
Every city and town should have the ability to control part of its energy future. A decentralized grid is stronger, cleaner, and more stable. It creates jobs, supports small businesses, and provides a pathway for more people to participate in the economic value their community produces. We are building a future where energy is not just a service but a shared opportunity.