Crispus Attucks Park, like most neighborhoods, falls in the extremely broad middle between these two extremes.

FORBES: D.C. Park Reveals the Gap Between Microgrid Promise and Reality

But the experience of Crispus Attucks Park shows that they are far, far away from becoming reality.

FORBES: D.C. Park Reveals the Gap Between Microgrid Promise and Reality

The problem is that no one at Crispus Attucks knows how to go about creating a microgrid.

FORBES: D.C. Park Reveals the Gap Between Microgrid Promise and Reality

But Crispus Attucks Park is a long way from having such concerns.

FORBES: D.C. Park Reveals the Gap Between Microgrid Promise and Reality

That was when the Crispus Attucks Development Corporation, the nonprofit that runs the park, got the idea that they could build a microgrid.

FORBES: D.C. Park Reveals the Gap Between Microgrid Promise and Reality

The first person to die in the Revolutionary War is buried not far from here, a black man from Barbados, named Crispus Attucks.

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The neighbors of Crispus Attucks Park in Washington D.

FORBES: D.C. Park Reveals the Gap Between Microgrid Promise and Reality

In the meantime, the neighbors of Crispus Attucks Park, like the rest of us, wait for the solution that will deliver reliable, clean, renewable power at those times when the utility fails.

FORBES: D.C. Park Reveals the Gap Between Microgrid Promise and Reality