Microgrids and resilience: Using a systems approach to achieve climate adaptation and mitigation goals

Kelly-Pitou, Katrina; Ostroski, Anais; Contino, Brandon; Grainger, Brandon M.; Kwasinski, Alexis; Reed, Gregory F.

doi:10.1016/j.tej.2017.11.008

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“…He acknowledges that both abrupt and continuous disturbances are part of all complex adaptive systems, but adds that resilience is specifically about sudden change in a constantly changing environment. Kelly-Pitou et al [50] cite climate change as an example for the relationship between stress, shock, and resilience. They believe that resilience measures should protect communities against the immediate damages of climate change as well as helping to mitigate the longterm impact of climate change [50].…”

Section: Stress or Shocksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kelly-Pitou et al [50] cite climate change as an example for the relationship between stress, shock, and resilience. They believe that resilience measures should protect communities against the immediate damages of climate change as well as helping to mitigate the longterm impact of climate change [50].…”

Section: Stress or Shocksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unlike adaptability and transformability, which can be found in various literature concerning resilience (cf. [9,16,18,29,38,[46][47][48][49][50][51][52]), the four aspects introduced by Walker et al are less common in resilience research.…”

Section: Introduction To the Modern Theory Of Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Adapting the theory of resilience to energy systems: a review and outlook

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Sustainable systems must maintain their function even in the event of disruptions in order to be considered truly sustainable. The theory of resilience concerns the behavior of systems during and aftershocks. Initially, modern understanding of resilience focused on ecological systems; however, the theory was extended to include the ecological aspects and the also social aspects of a system. As a result of climate change, increased efforts have been made to ensure energy systems are more sustainable. The issue of resilience has therefore significantly gained importance of late to energy systems. In the future, modern energy systems will be increasingly exposed to disruptions, whether due to climate change, terrorism, or variable power supply from renewable energy sources. Protecting energy systems from all these threats is only possible at great cost, but it is much more sensible to design resilient systems that can quickly resume their system function after a disturbance. This review looks at research into the resilience and its application to energy systems and identifies similarities and differences. Starting with Holling's contribution to resilience, the development of the theory is examined and the different definitions are compared. The differences between engineering and ecological resilience are also discussed. Additionally, the review examines, on the one hand, criticism of the theory of resilience and, on the other hand, remaining questions in relation to the application of resilience, such as the system's state after the disruption. The paper subsequently examines the application of the theory of resilience to different energy systems. The review concludes with an outlook on the possibility of operationalizing resilience for energy systems.

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Section: Stress or Shocksmentioning

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“…Regarding the resilience of the power grid, in [116,117], microgrids are used to perform load control, and act as dispatchable and non-dispatchable units and energy storage units within the grid, as well as showing that integrating microgrids in an EPG will improve the resilience of the system as a whole. For the authors of [118], it is important conceptualize the frameworks that a microgrid can help in, thinking about the potential of microgrids, in order to understand how to use them in favor of the optimization of the operation of an EPG.…”

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A Survey on Power Grid Faults and Their Origins: A Contribution to Improving Power Grid Resilience

2019

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One of the most critical infrastructures in the world is electrical power grids (EPGs). New threats affecting EPGs, and their different consequences, are analyzed in this survey along with different approaches that can be taken to prevent or minimize those consequences, thus improving EPG resilience. The necessity for electrical power systems to become resilient to such events is becoming compelling; indeed, it is important to understand the origins and consequences of faults. This survey provides an analysis of different types of faults and their respective causes, showing which ones are more reported in the literature. As a result of the analysis performed, it was possible to identify four clusters concerning mitigation approaches, as well as to correlate them with the four different states of the electrical power system resilience curve.

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“…Microgrids have received a lot of attention in recent years, and proponents argue that microgrids offer a suitable basis for the future decentralized and distributed electricity system (Hirsch, Parag, & Guerrero, 2018, p. 404). The use of microgrids can lead to greater local use of electricity and an increased resilience of the grid (Kelly-Pitou et al, 2017, p. 23). In addition, the use of a microgrid will often be coupled with a local governance structure, such as an electricity cooperative.…”

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Peer-to-peer electricity trading: A review of the legal context

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Competition and Regulation in Network Industries

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The peer-to-peer (P2P) trading of electricity is a recently developed type of transaction in the electricity system. In a P2P electricity trade, two equal market participants, in most cases prosumers, conclude a contract for the trade of electricity. This article provides a review of the legal context of P2P electricity trading, with a focus on European energy law. Furthermore, the article discusses the relation of P2P electricity trading to the phenomenon of the collaborative economy and to parallel technological developments taking place in the electricity system. We conclude that while the current state of European Union energy law might in principle allow P2P electricity trading, the lack of specific provisions is likely to cause issues in practice.

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Microgrids and resilience: Using a systems approach to achieve climate adaptation and mitigation goals

Cited by 21 publications

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Adapting the theory of resilience to energy systems: a review and outlook

Adapting the theory of resilience to energy systems: a review and outlook

A Survey on Power Grid Faults and Their Origins: A Contribution to Improving Power Grid Resilience

Peer-to-peer electricity trading: A review of the legal context

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