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Montclair had a visit from members of the state Board of Public Utilities Wednesday afternoon as the township investigates the prospect of installing a microgrid: a backup grid that could supply power to key buildings in the event of a widespread power failure...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Imagine if there were another Sandy-sized power outage in Montclair. It will probably happen. But what if there was a small energy grid, separate from the township’s main grid, that could keep a handful of essential buildings running? T...

Montclair will be receiving $142,500 from the state to do a microgrid feasibility study, part of a total of $2.1 million that will be handed out to 13 town centers. The N.J. Board of Public Utilities announced earlier this week that is was funding the studies in order to help achieve the state Energy Master Plan's goal of improving energy resiliency, as well as to increase the use of so-called Dis