Stakeholder-guided holistic, Adaptive Framework for enhancing community Energy Resilience (SAFER)

Summary

Rural Kansas communities face significant energy disruptions due to aging infrastructure, extreme weather, and socioeconomic vulnerabilities, which traditional technical solutions often fail to address holistically. The SAFER project developed a stakeholder-guided adaptive framework that integrates community perspectives with advanced analytical models, such as self-organizing maps, hetero-functional graph theory, and graph neural networks, to improve energy resilience. This project has successfully demonstrated that optimal deployment of PV and battery storage can improve resilience indices by over 11%, providing transferable tools and guidelines for wider national application.

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