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A Microgrid That Wouldn’t Quit. Editor's Note: This is part of the IEEE Spectrum special report: Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Power. 26 October 2011—On 11 March, when the 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan and triggered one of the deadliest tsunamis the world has ever seen, the bustling port city of Sendai was directly in harm’s way. The port was destroyed, the airport was swamped, and waves reportedly rolled 8 kilometers inland, killing hundreds of people. While downtown Sendai escaped heavy structural damage, activity in the city ground to a halt. Every traffic light and office lamp went dark after the wall of water knocked out the electricity grid for the entire city. In some areas, the outages would last for weeks. But in one small section of the city, the lights stayed on. The project was intended to demonstrate a microgrid’s potential to improve power-supply reliability.

"Today, people have no options," says Keiichi Hirose, the head of the Sendai microgrid project. Planning the Smart Grid of 2025--Today. Search Results. The MicroGrid: a Scientific Tool for Modeling Computational Grids. Abstract Page. SearchResult.