Spotlight: Resilience & Transformation

A Path to Global Resilience

In the early 21st century, there is an urgent need to both build the electricity system of the future and meet the needs of today. This includes creating grids that can keep critical services online during the hurricanes, floods, wildfires and the other extreme weather events that are becoming increasingly common, while reforming utility processes and moving away from fossil fuels.

There are solutions that can work for both resilience and decarbonization, such as systems based on distributed wind and solar coupled with energy storage. However, utilities, regulators and solutions providers will need to prove that they can walk and chew gum at the same time. In a series of reports, RMI is exploring these interlinked themes of resilience and transformation.

Resilience & Transformation Series

REPORT Electricity

Reimagining Grid Resilience

This report describes the changing nature of resilience within the US grid and details specific recommendations to take advantage of current technological trends. This will help bring about investment in a grid that promotes resilience by design, economically and from the bottom up, and not as a cost-adding afterthought years later.

REPORT Islands

Solar Under Storm

One of the key recommendations of this report is to ensure inclusive multi-stakeholder collaboration. This entails communicating clear market signals to suppliers and upstream equipment providers and coordinating closely among practitioners and installers.

REPORT Electricity

Regulatory Solutions for Building Decarbonization

his report outlines 10 key strategies to support building decarbonization. It is accompanied by a resource library that shares resources for regulators from commissions across the U.S., nonprofits, and media that expand on the themes and strategies introduced in our report.

REPORT Africa

Nigeria’s First Commercial Undergrid Minigrid Project

The solar hybrid project in Mokoloki community is Nigeria’s first rural commercial undergrid minigrid, which came online in February 2020. Early evidence indicates the project will improve electricity service, support community development, and reduce utility losses.

Additional Resources

Powering Paradise

REPORT Electricity

February 4, 2020

Lessons for Grid Resilience from the Upper Roaring Fork Valley

REPORT Electricity

May 14, 2020

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