EE Times
Summary
In today’s increasingly unpredictable climate and geopolitical landscape, energy resilience has transitioned from a luxury to a necessity. With weather events increasing in frequency and severity across Europe and North America, traditional backup power systems are proving inadequate against extended outages.
Enter microgrids—decentralized systems that combine the best of renewable energy generation, energy storage, and intelligent control systems to provide robust backup power capabilities, among other benefits, to support normal operations.
The historical progression toward microgrid adoption accelerated following several high-profile power disruptions, such as the August 2019 U.K. outages that affected nearly 1 million customers and left thousands of commuters marooned underground. This demonstrated the vulnerability of traditional grid infrastructure—the U.K. system is more than 50 years old. These events catalyzed regulatory reforms and institutional investments in decentralized energy solutions across the globe.
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