ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines how security experts mitigate electricity outages as national risks and enhance infrastructure resilience, the management of electricity reliability in the liberalized electricity markets and in urban utilities, and the ways in which lay people reconstruct electricity blackouts and their effects as risks in households and bounce back from such disruptions. It highlights four main results that arose from multi-sited inquiry. The book suggests that both risk and resilience open up the discussion on the energy system and infrastructure in a substantial way, which should receive increasing attention in coming studies. It addresses the problem in their own distinct manners – on the national scale, by imaginative precautionary thinking; in network companies, by staying alert to systems and their volatile environments through situational skills; and in energy-using households and communities, by overall resourcefulness.
