Case Study: ProtoGen strengthens Southeastern Pennsylvania resilience with Xendee

ProtoGen - Customer Case Study

ProtoGen, a local microgrid and energy services developer, faced the significant challenge of securing southeastern Pennsylvania's critical infrastructure after Hurricane Sandy caused a nine-day regional outage. The primary hurdles involved coordinating across multiple utilities, securing funding, and integrating diverse technologies across a wide area to build a cost-effective and scalable regional microgrid for disaster preparedness. The project was initiated in collaboration with the Idaho National Laboratory’s Net-zero Microgrid Program and funded by the DOE.

Using Xendee's DESIGN software for modeling and optimization, the team adopted a regional systems thinking approach. Xendee was crucial for simulating the entire multi-node system and optimizing individual subsections for both grid-connected and outage scenarios. The result is an operational resilience corridor with over $70 million in energy assets, enabling one utility to now support over 70% of its community's peak load and provide aid to surrounding areas. Xendee continues to be used for iterative optimization as the project expands.

ProtoGen

Adam Morse

VP of Engineering