Quick Reads
Powering PostCOVID-19 Resilient Recovery with Green Stimulus
What economic recovery solutions following the COVID-19 pandemic can support power sector resilience, support future growth, decarbonize electricity ...
Battery Storage for Resilience
As the capital costs of battery storage systems are decreasing, new opportunities to cost-effectively deploy the technology, often paired with renewable energy ...
The Resilient Energy Platform
Developed through the USAID-NREL Partnership, the Resilient Energy Platform is a website that provides expertly curated resources, training materials, data, ...
Planning a Resilient Power Sector
The provision of reliable, secure, and affordable electricity is essential to power economic growth and development. The power system is at risk from an array ...
Planning a Resilient Power Sector
The provision of reliable, secure, and affordable electricity is essential to power economic growth and development. The power system is at risk from an array ...
PLANIFICACIÓN DE UN SECTOR ENERGÉTICO RESILIENTE: Cómo asegurar electricidad confiable, segura y asequible (Spanish Translation)
Planning a Resilient Power Sector: Ensuring Reliable, Secure, Safe, and Affordable Electricity (Spanish translation)
ການວາງແຜນສົ່ງເສີມການປັບຄືນສະພາບເອົາໃຫ້ອອກຂະແໜງພະລັງງານ ການຮັບປະກັນໄຟຟ້າໃຫ້ມີຄວາມສະຖຽນ, ໝັ້ນຄົງ, ປອດໄພ ແລະ ໃນລາຄາທີ່ສາມາດຊື້ໄດ້ (Lao translation)
Power Sector Resilience Planning: To Ensure Reliable, Secure, Safe, and Affordable Electricity Supplies (Lao translation)
Understanding Power System Threats and Impacts
Understanding potential threats to a power system is an essential first step in supporting power sector resilience. It is important to assess both current and ...
Power Sector Resilience Technical Solutions
Clean energy technical solutions can enhance resilience across the grid system to help provide more reliable and resilient power to end users. Several ...
Mini-Grids and Climate Resilience
Reliable and affordable energy can drive economic growth, development, and improved health and security. Yet communities in remote locations often lack access ...
Cybersecurity and Distributed Energy Resources
This fact sheet addresses cybersecurity for distributed energy resources (DERs) and identifies best practices in cybersecurity governance, technical management ...
Power Sector Cybersecurity Building Blocks
The Power Sector Cybersecurity Building Blocks are designed to help a variety of stakeholders improve security for the electrical grid. This effort grows out ...
Кибербезопасность и распределенные энергетические ресурсы (Russian Version)
Russian translation of the Cybersecurity and Distributed Energy Resources Quick Read.
Power Sector Resilience: Integrated Resource and Resilience Planning
Various threats—natural, technological, and human-caused—can compromise the safety, reliability, and affordability of power delivery. Among these threats is ...
Renewable Energy to Support Energy Security
Renewable energy plays an important role in supporting energy security through contributing to the protection and continued provision of energy services when a ...
Finance for Power Sector Resilience
Many countries and cities are considering and planning for power sector resilience through undertaking vulnerability assessments and developing resilience ...
Valuing Adaptation and Resilience Interventions in the Power Sector
By 2040, the global power sector will require an estimated $30 trillion in investment to keep pace with current trends and achieve the Sustainable Development ...
Institutional Solutions to Enhance Power Sector Resilience
How will power system operators, personnel, and end users react during a major disruption? Will system operations adapt to changing conditions and recover ...
Power Sector Resilience: Flexible Adaptation Pathways
Power sector planners routinely make investments in major assets (e.g., power plants, substations) with expected operational lives lasting 30 years or more. ...
Cross-Border Power Trade to Support Resilience
Cross-border power trade can support public interest goals such as better grid resilience, increased energy access, economic development, and other power ...
Valuing the Resilience Provided by Solar and Battery Energy Storage Systems
Placing a value on the benefits provided by solar with storage during grid outages can significantly impact project economics and system design. This paper ...
Valuing Resilience in Electricity Systems
Recent natural disasters resulting in long-duration power outages have highlighted the United States’ increasing dependence on electricity, as well as the ...
Distributed Energy Planning for Climate Resilience
This fact sheet compiles nest practices, lessons learned, and solutions for implementing distributed energy for resilience, based on analytical and technical ...
Solar Photovoltaic Systems in Hurricanes and Other Severe Weather
Field examinations of hurricane damaged photovoltaic systems have revealed important design, construction, and operational factors that greatly influence a ...
Renewable Energy to Support Energy Security
Renewable energy plays an important role in supporting energy security through contributing to the protection and continued provision of energy services when a ...
The Link Between Solar Energy and Extreme Weather
Those who have experienced extended power outages are turning to solar as a means to adapt to increasing extreme weather events. Is it the future of climate ...
