Resilience considerations with increased Distributed Energy Resource (DER) integration

Grid resilience is becoming an increasingly important topic of strategic conversation and objective for communities with critical infrastructure and loads. In addition, the reliability of the grid requires to withstand extreme conditions, notably extreme weather events such as hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires. Global warming has contributed to a noteworthy increase in the number of destructive weather-related events and customers, commercial practices and industrial processes alike are feeling the impact of not having access to the grid. Additionally, the concept of Climate Resilience is forcing utilities to embed climatic modelling into their strategic thinking to avoid risk and ensure greater resiliency of their networks, with the qualification that climate models still hold many uncertainties.