Strengthening a Minnesota Community with Solar and Resilience

The Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) prepared this case study to describe how the community based organization, Ecolibrium3, developed a community solar array and resilience hub to benefit residents of a low-income, historically marginalized community in Duluth, MN. To create these two distinct projects Ecolibrium3 made use of stakeholder partnerships, technical assistance, and community outreach. This case study illustrates how these two projects were developed, what they learned, and what advice they would give to those developing future programs.

This case study was developed as part of CESA’s Solar with Justice: Connecting States and Communities project. The Solar with Justice …

How to Evaluate Your Energy Resilience Needs

Extreme weather, a changing resource mix, and energy price volatility – these factors are transforming the energy landscape and driving organizations to prioritize energy resilience.

But in today’s world, organizations need to think beyond the traditional definition of ‘energy resilience’ – the ability to ensure energy continuity during power outages. Organizations should now be working toward energy resilience in broader terms to handle the varied energy challenges that will be growing throughout the coming years – like energy market volatility, regulatory risks, and stakeholder demands.

As a result, organizations are increasingly looking for solutions that align with their energy resilience …

Governance of Infrastructure for Resilience

Drawing on case studies and stakeholder engagement with infrastructure decision makers and practitioners around the globe, this white paper explores the current key challenges and barriers to implementing governance of infrastructure for resilience, and the opportunities available for positive change.

Developing infrastructure that is resilient to climate change and natural hazards requires resilience thinking and resilience building decisions and actions by practitioners across the whole infrastructure lifecycle. At each stage there are opportunities to enhance the resilience value of an infrastructure project and to ensure that the resilience value that was built in the earlier stages.…

Community Resilience Options: A Menu for Enhancing Local Energy Resilience

This document highlights areas of potential community resilience improvements, especially those that relate to clean energy deployment for communities and municipalities. While there is no single resilience solution that will apply to every community or geographic location, there is a need for resilience solutions as a best practice. This document introduces 10 high-level categories of resilience-enhancing energy-related projects, intended for community members, planners, and decision-makers new to the topic to build their understanding of which solutions fit their community best. System resilience leads to community resilience by neutralizing threats, minimizing disruptions, and providing enhanced day-to-day security and social cohesion for …

A New England – Maritimes Offshore Energy Corridor Builds Regional Resilience for a Clean Energy Future

This White Paper presents the high-level case for the proposed New England-Maritimes Offshore Energy Corridor (NEMOEC) transmission facilities between Nova Scotia and New England to connect two distinct offshore wind resource areas with the two load centers in each respective region, highlighting the economic and environmental benefits.

The White Paper is not meant to be a business case. As such, the analyses are generally higher level and the assessment of benefits is more a demonstration that these benefits are offered, rather than a detailed assessment of the quantum of the benefit. The White Paper’s contents are intended to be used …

Innovation for Resilience

For the past year, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) studied how the U.S. government can better position itself to promote resilience across four connected focus areas: the workforce, climate security, supply chains, and cybersecurity. Through independent research and a series of roundtables and expert interviews with current and former government officials, academics, think tank practitioners, and industry leaders, the CSIS project team investigated the current capacity for resilience within each focus area, barriers to creating greater resilience, and opportunities for enhancing overall resilience between the focus areas. This report is a compilation of the four research commentaries …

OurEnergyPolicy Event Summary – Reliability and Resilience within Competitive Markets

This event summary highlights key comments made by industry experts at an OEP webinar in March 2023. Featuring panelists from the Energy Choice Coalition, Edison Electric Institute, and C3 Solutions in a discussion on competition in energy markets and issues of cost, reliability and resiliency.…

How Advanced Nuclear Generation Technologies Support Electric Grid Resilience

This paper articulates the case that deployment of advanced nuclear generation technologies can and should play a major role in enhancing electric grid resilience. Before addressing specific factors in support of this broad proposition, it is necessary to define the scope of the recommendation, as well as to clarify issues to be addressed.

This article clarifies how advanced nuclear generation technologies could be deployed to enhance the “resilience” of the electric grid and to address emerging challenges associated with current electric grid evolution. Advanced nuclear technologies could also decrease the potential for negative consequences in the aftermath of public policy …

How Cloud Computing Enhances Grid Resilience Against Escalating Threats

Our electric grid has never been more important — or more threatened. The frequency of extreme weather events, plus challenges caused by cyber criminals and an aging power system, continue to put an ever-increasing strain on our electric grid. To prepare for the future and make the move toward cleaner energy, cloud computing is key.

In our latest playbook, learn how utilities are leveraging cloud computing for everything from machine learning and analytics to proactive maintenance to customer service and more. Learn the benefits of cloud computing, including:

– Insights from machine learning and analytics – More effective outage response

Power Grid Resilience Under Wildfire: A Review on Challenges and Solutions

This paper studies the potential impacts of wildfires on the electric power grid, and explores the challenges and solutions for reducing the intensity, duration and impact of this unfavorable event on the grid. To this end, the paper overviews the efforts toward impact analysis and risk evaluation of wildfire and forecasting models to estimate the wildfire damages. Then the solutions to improve different aspects of grid resilience including robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and adaptability are discussed. The mitigation solutions are categorized in four groups including situational awareness, preventive activities, corrective responses, and restorative actions. The state-of-the-art methodologies and algorithms in …