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In recent years, technologies related to energy storage and
other distributed energy resources (such as renewable microgrids)
have significantly improved and become more economical. Several
projects across Canada have already leveraged the declining costs
and maturing technology of battery systems to store electricity
from the grid or from community-based renewable generation.
These trends of decreasing costs and maturing technology, and
the potential for the use of this technology in circumstances where
a connection to the main energy grid is not available, are creating
more opportunities for remote Indigenous communities to reduce