Building resilient grids

Extreme weather is becoming more common around the world, with climatic events such as storms often causing damage to power networks, resulting in a loss of electricity – but could satellites prove to be a solution to maintaining energy supplies on earth?

All systems fail occasionally. But infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to disruptions caused by extreme weather, which is being made more severe and frequent as a result of climate change..

Stanford research suggests that more integrated management of electricity resources across the region could significantly reduce the risk of power outages and accelerate the transition to clean energy.

This study is a first attempt to quantify the risk posed by tropical cyclone and coastal floods to power infrastructure in Southeast and East Asia at a large scale.

Grids are the arteries and veins of electricity circulation. Comprising of power stations, substations, transformers, transmission and distribution lines, the grid connects electricity supply to demand.

University at Buffalo engineers, partners create model to make nation’s grid more resilient amid extreme weather, projected spikes in demand

This note explains how the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction (GFDRR) has successfully supported Bangladesh in integrating climate resilience to the rural power system, with a specific focus on power system planning and post-disaster recovery.

Conditions that usually accompany the kind of intense hot and cold weather that strains power grids may also provide greater opportunities to capture solar and wind energy.

Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK developed a new method that can be used to identify those critical lines and increase the system’s resilience.

Advanced weather prediction tools, renewable energy integration, and grid modernization are some of the key initiatives currently being undertaken by utilities to ensure network resilience in the face of power outages caused by extreme weather events.