Grid Resilience
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As illustrated this summer, extreme-weather events and wildfires can put power grids under pressure and threaten their ability to produce reliable power.
For decades, consumers have relied on electricity delivered across long distances from large, centralized power plants. But what if a neighborhood, military installation or hospital complex could safely disconnect and run on locally produced power when power from the central grid was not available?