MICATU for Microgrids

Precision Monitoring for Resilient, Safe & Optimized Microgrid Power Networks

 Microgrids promise resilience, efficiency, and energy autonomy – but without accurate, real-time visibility into system performance, operators are often managing blind. 

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The Challenge: Full visibility across generation, storage and load.

Empowering Energy Independence - safely, accurately, and in real time.

As microgrids become an essential part of today’s energy landscape, operators face a unique set of technical, regulatory and financial challenges. Whether you’re managing a campus, community, healthcare facility, or industrial backup system, you need dependable, accurate data to ensure resilience and optimize performance.

Microgrid Business & Operational Challenges

Regulatory & Policy
  • Lack of frameworks built for microgrids: Traditional grid-rules often don’t address bi-directional energy flow, local trading, or microgrid ownership models.
  • Complex interconnection: Ownership, metering, compensation for resilience services and DER export are often ambiguous.
  • Utility/market friction: Legacy utilities may resist microgrid models and lack infrastructure for seamless data sharing or control.
Financial & Commercial
  • High upfront investment: Generation, storage, inverters and control systems represent substantial capital cost.
  • Uncertain revenue streams: Resilience value, demand response participation, grid-services compensation and off-grid operation are hard to monetize.
  • Performance-risk: If the microgrid under-performs (due to hidden losses, harmonics, poor visibility), ROI is compromised.
Technical & Operational
  • Integration complexity: Distributed generation, energy storage, bidirectional flow, island/connected transitions—they all demand precise control and visibility.
  • Power-quality & stability: Voltage flicker, harmonic distortion, imbalance and frequency deviations are heightened in microgrid environments.
  • Safety and accessibility: Traditional current/voltage sensors involve physical contact, arc-flash hazards, and are difficult in hybrid/distributed layouts.
  • Data fragmentation & cybersecurity: Multiple inverter vendors, legacy sensors, disparate analytics platforms and remote sites challenge unified visibility.
Microgrid operators face complex business, regulatory, and technical challenges that hinder profitability, reliability, and seamless integration with the main grid.
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Overcome Microgrid Critical Business Challenges with MICATU

See What the Utility Sees—Before They Act.

Without precise, real-time visibility into their electrical systems, even the most advanced microgrids are flying blind—risking inefficiency, instability, and unnecessary downtime.

Non-Contact Optical Sensing for Safe, High-Fidelity Visibility

  • Live installation without grid interruption: deploy while the system is energized, avoid downtime.

  • Utility-grade accuracy (±0.5%) for voltage, current, power factor, harmonics and phase balance.

  • Non-intrusive: no physical connection to energized conductors, significantly reducing arc-flash and maintenance risk.

Real-Time, Unified Data Across Generation, Storage & Load

  • Full visibility into solar, wind, battery, diesel, switchgear, loads and export/import flows.

  • Integrates into SCADA, microgrid controllers and analytics platforms to support control, optimization and compliance.

  • Enables fault detection, imbalance/harmonic monitoring, condition-based maintenance and island/connected mode transition monitoring.

Empowerment for Regulatory, Financial & Operational Confidence

  • Provides precise measurement data to assist with interconnection negotiations, tariff structure validation, and grid-services participation.

  • Helps build credible business cases: accurate visibility supports load-shifting, demand response, resilience crediting and ROI modeling.

  • Improves operational reliability: early detection of issues protects assets, extends life and avoids unplanned downtime.

MICATU’s advanced optical sensing technology delivers the accuracy, safety, and insight microgrids need to operate smarter, safer, and more efficiently across generation, storage, and load.

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Results Microgrid Operators Can Expect

When microgrid operators can finally see their systems with clarity and confidence, performance transforms—efficiency rises, outages fall, and every decision is backed by real data.

  • Significant reduction in troubleshooting time and maintenance cost thanks to high-fidelity data and early detection.

  • Enhanced uptime and reliability by identifying and resolving power-quality issues before they escalate.

  • Increased utilization of distributed assets (solar, storage, load) through precise measurement and system optimization.

  • Better regulatory and contract outcomes: transparent, audit-ready data supports interconnection, export/import accounting and resilience justification.

  • Safer operations: non-contact installation and maintenance reduce worker risk and system disruption.

 

Key Use Cases with Microgrids

Powering Possibilities, Anywhere Energy Matters

From critical infrastructure to campuses and industrial sites, MICATU empowers microgrids to deliver reliable, resilient, and optimized power exactly where it’s needed most. MICATU enables:

  • University or campus microgrids transitioning between grid-connected and islanded modes.

  • Data centers, hospitals or mission-critical facilities requiring guaranteed back-up power and high power quality.

  • Community or municipal microgrids combining renewable generation, storage and load sharing.

  • Industrial or commercial sites with hybrid generation (solar, diesel, storage) seeking to optimize cost, reliability and resilience.

Safe. Reliable. Precise.

MICATU's next-generation optical sensing platform solves key challenges faced by utilities and commercial businesses. The new, integrated grid of the future is here today. You need a sensing platform that can keep up. Advanced optical sensing gives you unmatched, real-time insight into power quality, ultimately giving you the tools you need to avoid costly outages.

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