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This past year, we successfully installed a photovoltaic solar and battery storage microgrid system at our site in partnership with RE-volv and Vital Energy Solutions. OAEC went through a long and careful process of considering the ecological impact, energy security benefits, and economic case for making this major investment in energy resilience. ![]()
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To learn more about how and why we chose to build a microgrid and all the ecological, social, and economic factors we took into account, read this blog post!☀️⚡🌱
Solar, Storage, and Security: Why We Built Our Own Microgrid - Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
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Earlier this year shifted away from the PG&E grid to our own new solar photovoltaic and battery microgrid system that now produces all the electricity used at OAEC! One of the things that we do at OAE...
That’s a wrap on our 2025 Resilient Community Design courses! We had so much fun training the dozens of wonderful people who joined us for our Permaculture Design Certification and Food Forests courses this year. Our 2026 course dates will be released soon, with the first course of the new year in happening in April!![]()
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2025 Annual Update
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