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UC Irvine Microgrid

Organizations, planners, suppliers, equipment, controls, and reported system specifications—with source-level citations.

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations12
System facts17
Sources reviewed4
Last researched2026-07-19

UC Irvine operates a campus microgrid and research test bed served from Southern California Edison's 66 kV network. University documentation identifies the central plant, thermal storage, enterprise energy management, detailed metering, ETAP model, EV charging, fuel cell, and generic-controller research partners.

Research status
Operational campus microgrid and active research platform
Historical classification
University
Reported capacity
See component specifications
Coordinates
33.64050, -117.84430
Evidence note: “Every company” cannot be proven from public material alone. This page lists every organization found in the recovered record and reviewed sources, preserves unknown roles, and explicitly marks undisclosed controller or equipment details.
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Project delivery

Who was involved in UC Irvine Microgrid?

12 publicly identified organizations. Where a recovered source named a participant without explaining its work, the role remains explicitly unspecified.

Organization

California Independent System Operator

Demand-response and grid-services market interface [3]

Organization

Coulomb Technologies

Level 2 electric-vehicle charger supplier [3]

Organization

EnerNOC

Demand-response service provider [3]

Organization

ETAP

Electrical-network modeling software and controller-research partner [3][4]

Organization

FuelCell Energy

300 kW molten-carbonate fuel-cell supplier [3]

Organization

MelRoK, LLC

Enterprise energy-management, metering, and demand-response supplier [3]

Organization

Southern California Edison

Serving utility and generic-controller research partner [3][4]

Organization

U.S. Department of Energy

Generic Microgrid Controller research funder [3][4]

Organization

UCI Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP)

Research, modeling, and controller-development lead [3][4]

Organization

UCI Facilities Management

Campus utility and operating organization [3]

Organization

University of California, Irvine

Campus microgrid owner [3]

Organization

Yazaki

Absorption-chiller supplier for the fuel-cell CCHP system [3]

System evidence

Reported capacity and specifications

Values can describe different project phases or components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Solar
893 [1]
KW Gas/Diesel
13500 [1]
Storage
Thermal Storage [1]
Electric service
66 kV stepped to 12 kV by two 15 MVA transformers across ten 12 kV circuits [3]
Combined-cycle plant
13 MW gas turbine plus 6 MW steam turbine [3]
Solar PV
More than 4 MW in current university description; archived record documented 893 kW [3][1]
Thermal storage
4.5 million gallons / 60,000 ton-hours [3]
Controller-test battery
2 MW / 500 kWh deployed for islanding and reconnection research [4]
Advanced metering
More than 100 high-resolution meters [3]

Controls and hardware

Equipment and controller details

Manufacturer and model are shown only when a source names them. Generic descriptions are not converted into guessed product assignments.

01

Enterprise energy management

MelRoK, LLC — EnergiStream

Collects meter data, supports Auto-Demand Response, and feeds real-time information to the campus microgrid model. [3]

02

Microgrid simulation

ETAP — Electrical Transient Analyzer Program

Calibrated campus electrical model used for steady-state, dynamic, and control studies; not itself the field controller. [3]

03

Generic Microgrid Controller

Model not publicly disclosed

APEP, SCE, ETAP, and MelRoK developed and tested a controller against the UCI model and OPAL-RT platform; a commercial model name is not stated. [4]

04

EV charging

Coulomb Technologies

University page reports 28 public Level 2 chargers in one section; older table values are retained only in source context. [3]

05

Fuel-cell CCHP

FuelCell Energy / Yazaki

300 kW molten-carbonate fuel cell integrated with a 40-ton Yazaki absorption chiller. [3]

Recovered detail

Additional technical notes

Concise system facts recovered from the historical project record. Treat these as historical unless a newer primary source confirms them.

  • Management

    This solution will consist of installing 100 advanced meters capable of delivering high resolution data to the UCI Microgrid model as well as sub‐metering building loads. [1]

  • Management

    The locations of these meters have been chosen based on a visibility study performed with the UCI Microgrid model. [1]

  • Management

    The vehicles include battery electric vehicles (Scion iQ, Toyota Rav4), plug‐in hybrid vehicles (Toyota Prius Plug In), and fuel cell hybrid vehicles (Toyota fuel cell vehicles). [1]

Provenance

4 sources

Primary owner, government, university, supplier, and engineering sources are preferred. Archived references preserve claims whose original pages moved or disappeared.

  1. [1]
    Recovered Microgrid Projects record

    Internet Archive · Archived source · captured 2020-07-06

  2. [2]
    UC Irvine Microgrid Page

    apep.uci.edu · Archived source · captured 2020-07-06

  3. [3]
    UC Irvine Microgrid

    University of California, Irvine Advanced Power and Energy Program · Primary source

  4. [4]
    UCI Microgrid research overview

    University of California, Irvine · Primary source

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