Potential locations

North Bay Community Resilience Initiative

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The Clean Coalition is working closely with both PG&E and Sonoma Clean Power, as well as multiple leaders in the community, to analyze the best locations for North Bay Community Resilience Initiative projects. Final decisions have not yet been made, but some potential project sites have been identified.

Example location 1: Larkfield and the Old Redwood Highway Corridor

Larkfield and the Old Redwood Highway Corridor – ideal for a Community Microgrid
  • Ideal for Community Microgrid
  • Served by a single substation, Fulton

Example key sites — critical, priority, large roofs and parking lots, and more:

  • Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital
  • Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
  • Cardinal Newman High School
  • Mark West School and area
  • Larkfield Shopping Center
  • Molsberry Markets
  • John B Riebli School
  • St. Rose School

 

Larkfield and Old Redwood Highway Area Community Microgrid block diagram

 

Example Community Microgrid Elements
Fulton Substation area
Hospital cluster
Cardinal Newman High School cluster
Larkfield Shopping Center cluster
Integration Capacity Analysis (ICA) Feeder Map with clusters circled

Example location 2: Coffey Park and the Bicentennial Corridor

  • Ideal for a Community Microgrid
  • Served by a single substation, Monroe

Example key sites — critical, priority, large roofs and parking lots, and more:

  • Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center & Foundation Hospital
  • Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Hearing Center
  • Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office
  • Superior Court of California
  • Sonoma County Clerk Recorder
  • Sutter Urgent Care
  • Security Public Storage
  • Schaefer Elementary School
  • Solstice Senior Living Center
  • And dozens of Commercial & Industrial roof and parking lot locations including K-Mart, Vertex Climbing Center, Trader Joe’s, Epicenter, Walgreens, Pepsi Bottling Group, etc.
Monroe substation area
Kaiser Medical Center and Foundation Hospital
Sonoma County government buildings cluster
Commercial and industrial cluster

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