Grid Resilience to Extreme Events (ResiliEX 2.0) Workshop Report

Summary

The Grid Resilience to Extreme Events (ResiliEX 2.0) workshop, held in Seattle from April 23–25, 2024, brought together over 110 experts from diverse sectors to address the growing challenge of extreme weather impacts on the power grid. The report, published in 2024, highlights the need for multi-disciplinary collaboration, improved understanding of climate science, and enhanced communication between stakeholders. Key insights include the finding that a billion-dollar disaster occurs every three weeks on average, and the recognition that the 100-year-old grid requires significant modernization. Lessons from events like ERCOT's Winter Storm Uri in February 2021, which caused 4,124 outages and over 200 deaths, underscore the urgency of these efforts, with ERCOT conducting more than 2,100 weatherization inspections by February 2024. The workshop emphasized that traditional planning metrics are insufficient, and future energy storage needs to be discussed in terms of gigawatt-months.

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