When the grid fails, the county stays on.
MYNT partnered with the County of Monterey to design and build a 1.4 MW solar + battery microgrid for the county's main administrative building: 2,100 kWh of battery storage that islands from the grid during outages, engineered and built by MYNT's own crews.
microgrid: solar PV plus storage, orchestrated as one system for the county's main administrative building.
of battery storage: BESS sized to carry essential services when the microgrid islands.
delivered in-house: IBEW crews, in-house engineering, AMPS operations. One accountable team.
Problem, system, result.
The problem
A county's main administrative building can't go dark. PSPS events and grid outages in the region put essential public services at risk, while daytime rates and demand charges kept operating costs climbing. The county needed resilience and savings from the same investment.
The system
A 1.4 MW solar + battery microgrid with a 2,100 kWh BESS. On a normal day, solar serves the building and the battery shaves demand peaks. When the grid fails, the microgrid islands, disconnecting cleanly and carrying essential loads on solar and storage until utility power returns. Designed, engineered, and built by MYNT end to end.
The result
Blue-sky economics come from solar self-consumption and demand-charge peak-shaving in the 5 to 8 PM window; resilience comes from islanding. The county's engineering estimate at design projected $8.5M in savings and roughly 30,000 tons of CO₂ offset over 25 years. Measured, verified results publish here as AMPS O&M data accumulates.
From the field.
MYNT crews on site · W-2 · IBEW · California
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