ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors discuss current challenges to grid resilience, some best practices for utility resilience planning, specific solutions utilities are leveraging to improve resilience, and finally, how to incorporate these kinds of solutions into rate cases. The falling prices of solar generation and energy storage, combined with programs supporting energy efficiency and demand response, have encouraged the proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as rooftop solar. Given the right signals and incentives, DERs can add to the resilience of the grid during times of stress. Thinking about the resilience of the grid is not new for electric companies. In their foci on safety, reliability, and long-term investments, utilities have always taken action to keep the power flowing during major events and get it up and running quickly when the grid goes down. The spectrum of energy resilience looks different for energy companies than it does for end users.
