Full Title: Reimagining Resilience: A Framework for Integrating Customer-Sited and Grid-Scale DERs
Author(s): Weston Dengler and Jared Leader
Publisher(s): Smart Electric Power Alliance
Publication Date: September 26, 2024
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Description (excerpt):
In 2021, the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) developed the Microgrid Design Framework to provide the industry with a 10 step process for resilience-focused microgrid design. The 2021 framework sought to break communication silos down utilities and third-parties to improve microgrid project success and support the industry in addressing community resilience to natural hazard risks via microgrid deployment. Recognizing that the 2021 framework does not capture the full landscape of stakeholders, solutions, and business models for successfully improving resilience for utility customers and communities, this update builds on that framework and SEPA’s experience working directly with state energy offices, utilities, critical facility operators, and community stakeholders across the country. This framework provides an adaptable structure for coordinating engagement with broader groups of resilience project stakeholders to identify appropriate resilience solutions to meet the needs of a site or community.