Developed through the USAID-NREL Partnership, the Resilient Energy Platform is a website that provides expertly curated resources, training materials, data, tools, and direct
READ MORETo prevent future disasters, the Lao government thus approached the Swiss Government due to its long-standing expertise and experience in hydropower safety. The result is the Dam Safety and Institutional Assistance in Lao PDR (DSTIA) project, which is implemented by Helvetas in partnership with the Ministry of Energy and Mines.
READ MOREQuick Reads. Battery Storage for Resilience. As the capital costs of battery storage systems are decreasing, new opportunities to cost-effectively deploy the technology, often
READ MOREThe resilience enhancement model, considering the optimal configuration of MEst and LGst, is established for the gas-electricity integrated energy system, which can effectively reduce load loss of the integrated energy system in extreme conditions.
READ MOREPower Sector Resilience Planning: To Ensure Reliable, Secure, Safe, and Affordable Electricity Supplies (Lao translation)
READ MOREThe specific objectives are to: (1) clarify the meaning of energy system resilience, (2) map out a broad landscape of threats to energy systems from a resilience
READ MOREAs a collaborative initiative under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Partnership, the Resilient Energy Platform was recently released to
READ MORESpecifically suited to battery energy storage system (BESS) solutions, this paper presents a new resilience-driven framework for hardening power distribution
READ MOREFrequent occurrence of extreme events caused serious losses to the power system. This paper takes typhoon disasters as an example to establish the optimal planning model of energy storage system (ESS). The proposed model is a scenario-based two-stage stochastic MILP model. Fully considering the uncertainty of failure scenarios under
READ MOREA resilient power system, as defined by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)''s Grid Modernization Initiative and the National Academy of Sciences, must be capable of lessening the likelihood of long-duration electrical outages occurring over large service areas, limiting the scope and impact of outages when they do occur, and rapidly restoring
READ MORE39.72 kW. Comparing Figures 5C,D, the transferable load of microgrid 2 is transferred from 11:00 –12:00 and 19:00 –22: 00 to 1:00 –6:00. The total transferred power is 115.59kW, and there is
READ MOREPlacing a value on the benefits provided by solar with storage during grid outages can significantly impact project economics and system design. This paper explores the impact of resilience on the economics of PV and
READ MOREIt also focuses solely on the use of MPSs to enhance the resilience of MPDNs and can be compared to that proposed in [23]. While recent works, such as [53, 54], propose similar approaches to
READ MOREHutchinson et al. (2022) developed a resilience enhancement method for building-level electrical distribution systems with energy storage using the probability of outage survival curve. In a high
READ MORE2.2. Battery energy storage systems The BESS can provide bi-directional operation and fast response capability. Such characteristics make the BESS is a suitable technology to provide frequency regulation service. However, the most important constraint of
READ MOREMobile energy storage systems (MESSs) provide promising solutions to enhance distribution system resilience in terms of mobility and flexibility. This paper proposes a rolling integrated service restoration strategy to minimize the total system cost by coordinating the scheduling of MESS fleets, resource dispatching of microgrids, and
READ MOREResilient Energy Platform and Power Sector Resilience Planning in Lao PDR. The Resilient Energy Platform provides expertly curated resources, training materials, data,
READ MOREdeploying generation, storage, and efficiency •Recommendations for REZ development •Key climate change resilience actions •Priorities for monitoring and adapting plan
READ MORE• Collection of fact sheets on cutting-edge topics to support resilience in the energy sector, in partnership with RALI program including: • Transformative technology solutions to support resilience • Cross-border power trade for resilience • Integrated resource and resilience
READ MOREThe Resilient Energy Platform was recently released as a collaborative under the initiatives of the USAID-NREL Partnership and the platform provides expertly
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