Decentrally produced wind power would contribute to establishing an autonomous and disaster-resilient power supply system.
Renewable energy can also diversify supplies, helping to make a power system more resilient to failures and less exposed to fluctuating fuel prices.
"I don't think we pay quite enough attention to the technology fixes that would allow us to make the power system more resilient," said Clark W. Gellings, a researcher at the Electric Power Research Institute who is one of the report's authors.
Although there has been increasing interest in hardening the power system to be resilient against power outages, the risk of power outages cannot be completely diminished.
Although a great amount of research has strengthening power system to be resilient against outages, the risk of large-scale blackouts does not disappear.
In addition, as consumers demand that larger percentages of U.S. energy needs be met by wind and solar power, which of course are subject to environmental variability, the power system becomes less resilient and more costly to run.
In order to provide a resilient power benefit to our local facility, we add special switches that can isolate (or 'island') the PV/storage system in case of a grid failure.
It also has a resilient power grid, designed to withstand strong winds and heavy rain.
A similar problem afflicts the power system.
Large-scale blackout risks still exist and are inevitable, although a great amount of work has been done to make power systems resilient against outages [3].
Private sector investment in a smarter grid will allow for better integration of distributed energy resources (DER), like rooftop solar, while strengthening reliability and making power systems more resilient.
