The Clean Coalition's Community Microgrids are designed to provide indefinite, renewables-driven backup power to critical facilities. Our Community Microgrid Initiative will provide a standard methodology that any community can use to optimize and streamline the deployment of local. A Community Microgrid is a coordinated local grid area served by one or more distribution substations and supported by high penetrations of local renewables and other distributed energy resources (DER), such as energy storage and demand response. Community Microgrids represent a new approach for. Government policies supporting energy security, resilience, and emission reduction are accelerating smart microgrid investments. 55 million by 2033 from US$ 808. Increased rural electrification needs, government subsidies for renewable sources of energy, intensifying industrialization, the requirement for energy. A micro-grid is a smaller, localized group of energy sources. While it is usually connected to the larger, regular grid and is, therefore, synchronized, it has the advantage that it can also operate autonomously in “Island Mode,” according to research by Berkeley Lab.