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Modular “City-Scale Microgrid Kit” Debuts, Designed to Keep Critical Services Running During Grid Failures
Plug-and-play hardware and software bundle lets mayors deploy hospital-grade power in under six months without capital budgets
Denver, November 20, 2025
Denver-based Scale Microgrid Solutions today released the first turnkey “City-Scale Microgrid Kit,” a standardized package of solar arrays, lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, natural-gas generators and AI-driven controls that can be dropped into any U.S. city to keep fire stations, hospitals, shelters and communications towers operational when the bulk grid fails.
The kit arrives as extreme weather, cyber-intrusions and load growth push the nation’s aging transmission network toward what the North American Electric Reliability Corporation warns could be “rolling outages in 68 percent of North-American regions” as early as 2026. A 2024 study by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology found that multi-microgrid architectures cut average outage duration for low-income and medically vulnerable residents by 82 percent compared with centralized backup generators .
“Cities no longer have the luxury of five-year infrastructure timelines,” said Ryan Goodman, CEO of Scale Microgrid Solutions. “Our kit compresses scoping, permitting and construction to 24 weeks, financed entirely through an Energy-as-a-Service contract so municipalities pay only for the kilowatt-hours they use.”
Each 5-megawatt kit—enough to power 1,000 homes or a 200-bed hospital—includes Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Microgrid Flex platform, pre-configured to island from the grid in less than 100 milliseconds. Shipping containers house inverters, switchgear and fire-suppression systems; ballast-mounted solar carports eliminate roof penetrations; and cloud-based AI forecasts load, weather and utility prices to minimize fuel use. Customers may daisy-chain up to ten kits for 50 MW of resilience.
Early adopters are already placing orders. The City of Fresno, California, will deploy two kits to secure its 911 communications hub and a cooling center that served 3,200 residents during last year’s heat wave. “We can’t stop hurricanes or wildfires, but we can stop blackouts from paralyzing emergency response,” said Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer.
Market data underscore the urgency. Power outages cost the U.S. economy an estimated $150 billion annually, according to federal estimates cited by Schneider Electric, while the Department of Energy calculates that every dollar invested in microgrids saves $2.80 in avoided outage losses . Institutional investors have noticed: Scale’s backers, led by EQT Transition Infrastructure, have ring-fenced $1.2 billion to deploy kits nationwide through 2027.
The kit is available for reservation today, with initial deliveries scheduled for Q2 2026. Cities may select either a 20-year Energy-as-a-Service agreement starting at 8.5 ¢/kWh—below California and New England average retail rates—or a traditional ownership model leveraging federal Investment Tax Credits that cover up to 50 percent of capital cost.
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