“The impact of the Soboba Microgrid project goes beyond kilowatt hours and savings. The Soboba microgrid is intended to work in energy savings mode when the utility is available, and the energy storage will also back up the facility for short-term and long-term outages. Having distributed energy generation on site adds resiliency and is intended to lower energy costs for the tribal communities. Scale reports that, historically, tribal communities suffer from higher service costs, higher interconnection fees, more blackouts or brownouts, and remote and distant service locations.

The microgrid is intended to serve as an economic asset for the tribe and an emergency cooling center in the event of a community-wide power outage. “We are responsible for helping our people and our land thrive for generations to come, and we believe this microgrid system is an important step towards advancing our objectives.” “This project serves our mission to strengthen our tribe’s sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and prosperity,” says Soboba’s Tribal Council. Scale will also provide round-the-clock on-site and remote monitoring by Scale. The company expects that the microgrid will offset power consumption and its golf course operation. Scale will install 1.5 MW of solar on the roof of Soboba’s 474,000 square foot casino and hotel, and the energy will be stored in a 6 MWh Tesla Megapack energy storage system. As part of their strategic initiative to rapidly deploy cleaner and more resilient energy infrastructure across tribal lands, Scale Microgrids announced a microgrid project that will serve the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians at its Casino Resort in San Jacinto, Calif.

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