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The Alcatraz microgrid stands as a model for installing modern energy technology under challenging circumstances

The 22-acre island in San Francisco Bay is now a tourist attraction operated by the National Park Service. But until 1963, "The Rock" housed a supposedly inescapable prison made famous by the movie "Escape...

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