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Backup power systems on military installations must provide reliable power during a grid outage. The risks of blackouts and loss of electric power are not new. Outages of just a few hours are well known, but longer duration outages are becoming more frequent. The U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force now require backup power from one to two weeks.
At every building housing a critical load, a single backup generator is hardwired directly to the building. For the highest priority critical loads, two stand-alone backup generators can be deployed to provide a backup to the backup and a higher degree of reliability. A microgrid is an alternative way to provide resilient power to a military base.
A military base's critical mission depends on having power across multiple buildings. Three base level reliability metrics are illustrated below for well-maintained emergency diesel generators for a small base (1 MW peak critical load) and a large base (20 MW peak critical load).
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