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With the possibilities and potential impact of high-impact events on energy infrastructure and services increasing, resilience is becoming vital.
FREMONT, CA: If all the scientific advancements and their efficacies are on one side, the unpredictability of natural disasters waits on the other. In the ever-transitioning energy industry, the potential impacts of sudden hazards have become even more detrimental. Increasing resilience is the only way by which energy companies can guard against unreliability and disruptions. In a digitalized world where industries, as well as critical public infrastructure, are dependent on electricity, understanding the necessity of energy resilience becomes very important. The following list presents a few objectives for creating resilient energy infrastructure and services.
• Increased Incidence of Natural Calamities
The repercussions of climate change have begun to surface now. The gradual rise in temperature and changing weather patterns are giving rise to untimely flooding, snowing, and hurricanes. These events limit the clean energy generation. Besides, longer summers are also resulting in extensive forest fires that can also damage energy infrastructure. Mitigating these calamities requires energy companies to formulate resilience strategies and ensure the development of impact-resistant facilities.
• Greater Dependence on Distributed Resources
Unlike the centralized grid models, the evolving grids aimed at optimizing renewable energy are significantly distributed. Such distributed infrastructure has a higher dependence on the transmission and distribution networks. Conventionally, the transmission and distribution networks are prone to damage and result in longer outages. Thus, energy companies have to enhance the resilience of transmission and distribution lines to ensure increased reliability and faster recovery of distributed energy resources.
• Decarbonization Targets
Some of the incumbent energy companies are now diversifying into renewable energy production in order to achieve decarbonization targets. In doing so, resilience becomes an important contributing factor. With resilience in renewable energy facilities, these companies can gradually reduce the generation of non-renewable energy. Thus, resilience makes a swift transformation feasible.
In light of the transforming energy landscape and growing vulnerabilities, building resilience in energy infrastructure has come to be one of the primary concerns of the energy sector. The above factors substantiate the necessities further.
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