The electric grid is the key enabler of all critical sectors that billions of people across the world depend on, and a driver of economic development. The ever-evolving impacts of climate change and weather events that are becoming more frequent and severe are threatening the ability of the electric sector to deliver these critical functions. The severe impacts of climate change are already being observed across United States. As such, record low temperatures in Texas in the winter of 2021 have resulted in rolling outages, leaving homes amid freezing conditions.

The evolving climate change puts great emphasis on developing resiliency planning frameworks to not only mitigate but also adapt to the impacts of severe events on the functions of electric grid. Increasing frequency of events make it inevitable for resiliency planning and solutions to become a part of integrated planning functions in the electricity sector and investment prioritization frameworks including generation, transmission, and distribution. In this presentation, Dr. Bahramirad is going to discuss Resiliency planning of electric power system, not only the climate change and its impacts are evolving, but also the grid is evolving toward a sustainable and renewable future with emerging solutions including Microgrids and distributed energy resources.