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West Point Microgrid

Current status, energy mix, organizations, suppliers, equipment, controls, reported specifications, and project updates—with source-level citations.

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations8
System facts14
Sources reviewed11
Evidence reviewed2026-07-20

No reviewed official source confirms a fixed, installation-wide operational microgrid at the U.S. Military Academy. Sandia and Army records describe energy-surety studies and conceptual configurations, while the Academy's confirmed fixed renewable asset is a 200 kWdc grid-tied array at the Lichtenberg Tennis Center. A separate 2024 Viridi project placed one mobile RPS150 battery system at Camp Buckner for a tactical diesel-battery microgrid demonstration and a cadet integration project; it is not a base-wide stationary microgrid, and the release gives no power or energy rating. A 2024 Army-NYPA memorandum explores future clean-energy work but is not a construction commitment.

Research status
No fixed installation-wide microgrid verified. A 200 kWdc grid-tied PV array is operational; one mobile tactical battery/diesel demonstration began in 2024. Broader resilience work remains study/exploratory.
Historical classification
Military
Reported capacity
See component specifications
Coordinates
41.39148, -73.95597
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 West Point Microgrid?

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

Organization

New York Power Authority

Entered a 2024 memorandum with the Army to explore energy efficiency and possible onsite carbon-free generation at West Point; no committed microgrid scope was announced. [9]

Organization

NORESCO and Munro Solar

Client/development and solar-contractor entities associated with the 200 kWdc tennis-center PV installation. [6]

Organization

Sandia National Laboratories

Performed early energy-surety assessments and identified conceptual microgrid configurations; no reviewed document shows those concepts were built. [2][3]

Organization

U.S. Army Garrison West Point Directorate of Public Works

Installation energy-management and infrastructure organization involved in Net Zero and resilience planning. [2][10]

Organization

United States Military Academy at West Point

Installation owner/host; operates the tennis-center solar asset and hosts the mobile tactical storage demonstration and cadet research. [4][5][7]

Organization

US Department of Defence

Publicly named participant; role not specified in the recovered record [1]

Organization

USMA Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Runs the cadet capstone/research effort to integrate the mobile battery with the Army Tactical Microgrid Standard. [7]

Organization

Viridi

Supplied the RPS150 fail-safe mobile battery system for the Camp Buckner diesel-hybrid demonstration. [7][8]

System evidence

Energy mix, capacity, and specifications

Values can describe different project phases, generation sources, storage systems, or other components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Solar
249 [1]
Lichtenberg Tennis Center PV
200 kWdc — Army FY2016 Net Zero reporting identifies the capacity and says it came online in FY2015. An earlier Army article reports 780 panels and expected production equal to 50-60% of the building's consumption. It is described as grid-tied, not islandable. [4][5][6]
Mobile tactical BESS
One Viridi RPS150 unit; MW/kW and MWh/kWh not publicly stated in the project release — The product name must not be interpreted as a 150 kW or 150 kWh rating without a project datasheet. The unit was placed at Camp Buckner for demonstration. [7][8]
Conceptual microgrid configurations
Four concepts serving six energy-surety areas — Sandia/Army study output only. The Army report says most proposed renewable options were not planned for implementation at that stage. [2][3]
Legacy solar capacity conflict
200 kWdc official versus 249 kW in legacy microgrid lists — Use the official Army 200 kW value. The 249 kW figure has no supporting project specification in the reviewed legacy source and may conflate AC/DC, planned and installed scope, or another asset. [5][11]
Stationary BESS / fixed microgrid capacity
None verified — No official source reviewed provides a commissioned installation-wide controller, stationary battery, generation portfolio or islandable load capacity. [2][3][9]

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

Grid-tied solar PV array

Not disclosed in reviewed official source — Not disclosed

Quantity/status: 780 panels, 200 kWdc — Mounted at the Lichtenberg Tennis Center; project contractor reference identifies NORESCO/Munro Solar but not module/inverter models. [4][5][6]

02

Mobile battery energy-storage system

Viridi — RPS150

Quantity/status: One — Fail-safe mobile system deployed with a diesel generator at Camp Buckner. Project-specific power, energy, chemistry and inverter ratings were not stated in the release. [7][8]

03

Diesel generator

Not disclosed — Not disclosed

Quantity/status: At least one in the Camp Buckner demo — The RPS150 automatically recharges from the generator in the tactical demonstration. This mobile equipment is separate from fixed installation emergency-generation inventories. [7]

Technical record

Architecture, performance, and project updates

Concise technical facts, milestones, operating results, and later developments. Dated notes distinguish historical design claims from current evidence.

  • Concept versus deployment

    Army Net Zero and Sandia materials document site assessment and design alternatives for six mission-critical energy-surety areas. The Army's FY2013 report says West Point continued to rely on conventional energy sources and that many studied renewables were not planned. A conceptual-design listing is not commissioning evidence. [2][3]

  • Solar operating boundary

    The tennis-center array is a building-scale, grid-tied 200 kWdc project. It may reduce the building's annual grid consumption, but the official articles do not describe black-start capability, storage or an islanding switch. It should not by itself qualify the Academy as an operational microgrid. [4][5]

  • 2024 tactical demonstration

    Viridi placed an RPS150 mobile BESS at Camp Buckner and connected it with a diesel generator in a microgrid configuration with automatic recharge. In parallel, a one-year cadet capstone was to integrate the unit with the Army Tactical Microgrid Standard. This is a mobile training/research system and should be recorded as a separate subproject. [7][8]

  • Future activity

    The November 2024 Army-NYPA memorandum creates a framework to identify efficiency and possible onsite carbon-free generation projects. It announces exploration and technical cooperation, not an awarded fixed microgrid, equipment capacity or construction schedule. [9]

  • Unresolved data gaps

    No current public inventory was found for base electric load, annual energy mix, fixed backup generators, islandable critical loads, microgrid controller, stationary BESS or measured resilience performance. Older references to a 5 MW gas plant describe a planned option after cogeneration was found uneconomic; no reviewed source confirms it was built. [5][9][10]

Provenance

11 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 2021-04-20

  2. [2]
  3. [3]
    Energy Surety Microgrids and SPIDERS Peer Review

    U.S. Department of Energy / Sandia National Laboratories · Primary source

  4. [4]
  5. [5]
  6. [6]
    U.S. Military Academy Solar Project

    New York Engineers · Secondary research

  7. [7]
  8. [8]
  9. [9]
    NYPA and U.S. Army Sign Energy Resilience Agreement

    New York Power Authority · Primary source

  10. [10]
  11. [11]
    Recovered West Point Microgrid Project Profile

    Microgrid Projects · Archived source

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