Schneider Electric, American Microgrid Solutions Flex Collaboration to Expand Community DER Development
American Microgrid Solutions, which has worked years delivering on-site power resiliency to customers in the healthcare, municipal, senior care and community sectors, is expanding its partnership with microgrid integrator Schneider Electric.
AMS and Schneider Electric will work together on solutions accelerating distributed energy resource deployment and microgrids for healthcare, utility, residential, governmental and manufacturing customers. The collaboration will integrate Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Microgrid technology software and controls suite with AMS development and operations platforms. This includes the EcoStruxure Microgrid Flex offering to help modularize and standardize microgrids to speed up interconnection processes.
Both companies are participating in the Microgrid Knowledge Conference happening Monday through Wednesday at the Renaissance SeaWorld Hotel in Orlando.
“Schneider Electric and American Microgrid Solutions share a clear goal: make microgrids simpler to deploy, easier to operate and more valuable over their full lifecycle for communities in need,” said Geoff Oxnam, CEO and Founder of American Microgrid Solutions, in a statement. “By combining Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Microgrid Flex platform with AMS’ delivery and operation of onsite advanced power systems, we’re helping customers move from concept to commissioning while improving resilience, visibility and long-term performance across sites.”
AMS has developed microgrids throughout the U.S., including work which was honored with the Greater Good Award by Microgrid Knowledge two years ago in Baltimore. Here is a page showing many of the developers’ projects.
The expanded partnership with Schneider Electric will enhance early-stage microgrid development, the companies say, by combining technical evaluation with financial and operational planning. These expansions come as a greater number of large load customers—from communities to data centers and medical providers—are trying to secure energy resiliency while grid bottlenecks are growing.
“This partnership with American Microgrid Solutions strengthens our ability to collectively deliver secure, efficient and resilient microgrid deployments that communities can rely on,” said Samantha Childress, Microgrid Partner & Strategy Director at Schneider Electric. “Our collaboration will help drive microgrid lifecycle capabilities that allow resilience and recovery amid wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, blackouts and other causes of extended outages, maximizing energy availability.”
Both AMS’ Oxnam and SE’s Childress will be part of content sessions happening at Microgrid Knowledge this week. Oxnam will be panelist in a session on “Powering Health Center Resilience: Lessons from Major Weather Events,” which will be 10:15 a.m. Tuesday at Oceans Ballroom 4. The session features leaders from American Microgrid Solutions, PayOli Solar, Florida Association of Community Health Centers and nonprofit Direct Relief.
Childress will chair a 2:45 p.m. Wednesday session on “AI-Enabled Microgrids for Mission-Critical Systems; Turning Reliability into Revenue.” Panelists include microgrid and DER experts from CPower Energy and e2 Companies.
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I’ve spent the last 18 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. I was an energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World before moving to business-to-business media at PennWell Publishing, which later became Clarion Events, where I covered the electric power industry. I joined Endeavor Business Media in November 2021 to help launch EnergyTech, one of the company’s newest media brands. I joined Microgrid Knowledge in July 2023.
I earned my Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. My career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World, all in Oklahoma . I have been married to Laura for the past 36-plus years and we have four children and one adorable granddaughter. We want the energy transition to make their lives better in the future.
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