This paper discusses a variety of risks to electric infrastructure to demonstrate the impact on the current electric system – from equipment failure due to an aging grid, human error, natural disasters, and new threats such as cyberterrorism. It explores how commercial, industrial, and institutional organizations can address electric resiliency challenges through backup power from traditional fuels to the newest technologies. Finally, it compares the different options and discuss the advantages and drawbacks for each option.

With the imperative to provide sustainable energy increasingly joining the safe, reliable, and affordable mandate, the idea that utilities can provide value-added services beyond just delivering electricity and gas has gained momentum around the United States. Value-added services are broadly defined as a utility’s programmatic offerings to customers outside the traditional business of delivering safe, reliable, and affordable system power and gas.

The availability of clean water is critical to today’s society. With the increasing number of electrical outages from extreme weather and an aging grid, water and wastewater treatment plants are challenged to remain operational 24/7/365 and are turning to microgrids as a diesel alternative for backup power generation.

This report from Navigant Research explains how modular, low cost microgrids can provide long-duration resiliency services to host customer sites while helping integrate variable renewable energy supplies at the grid operations level.

This paper by the Clean Energy Buyers Institute (CEBI) explores ways to ground resilience in the context of clean energy, highlighting strategies in four impact areas.