Austin Energy SHINES: Solar-Storage Grid Management Pilot
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Branded a 'microgrid strategy,' this DOE-funded pilot never added islanding capability — it built DERMS software to coordinate batteries and solar, then wound down in 2020.
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Austin Energy's DOE-funded SHINES pilot (2016-2020, a $4.3m federal SETO grant matched by the utility) built a Distributed Energy Resource Management System coordinating 1.5MW battery systems at the Mueller and Kingsbury solar sites with demand response. It produced a replicable software template, not an islanding microgrid.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Austin Energy SHINES: Solar-Storage Grid Management Pilot” — Austin, United States. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/austin-smart-grid/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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