In this session, the audience will learn: o Utility microgrid activity and data from SEPA's latest Utility Transformation

• How a Maryland Energy Administration grant opportunity turned into a jumping off point for BGE to test the microgrid waters as a way to engage the community and potentially achieve carbon reduction/resiliency at a low-income development site in Annapolis, Maryland.
• What SEPA, BGE, and other project partners did to fully understand what it means to build a microgrid and engage the community
• Best practices on demonstrating costs and benefits of a microgrid project and engaging stakeholders to educate the public
• Lessons learned from a utility in the microgrid development process and the challenges that were encountered along the way
• How a microgrid strategy can also be a carbon reduction strategy