The Fort Collins entry is the municipal FortZED Renewable and Distributed Systems Integration demonstration, not a military installation and not one co-located generator plant. From 2008 through 2013, Fort Collins Utilities aggregated PV, methane and natural-gas CHP, conventional generators, microturbines, fuel cells, thermal storage, controllable loads, and vehicle-to-grid assets at roughly five participant locations on two distribution feeders. A second phase intentionally islanded a smaller microgrid linking Colorado State University's Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory with the Northside Aztlan Community Center.
- Research status
- Demonstration completed and no longer operating as an integrated project. City material says Phase I achieved a 20–30% peak-demand reduction on the two feeders and Phase II demonstrated the EECL–Northside Aztlan microgrid with cybersecurity safeguards. A 2020 NREL retrospective says the project was operational in 2012 but was disbanded in 2017 because of regulatory factors, historic distribution practices, and the natural end of the roughly ten-year collaboration. Individual participant assets may have continued independently, but the central FortZED dispatch system should not be represented as current.
- Historical classification
- CHP
- Reported capacity
- See component specifications
- Coordinates
- 40.59284, -105.06860
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