Modeling and design of solar + storage-powered community resilience hubs across California.

ABSTRACT: Distributed clean, reliable energy resources like solar plus battery storage (solar + storage) can reduce harmful emissions while supporting resilience. Solar + storage-powered resilience hubs provide energy for critical services during disasters while increasing human adaptive capacity year round. We studied where utility rates, local climate, and historical injustice make solar + storage resilience hubs more valuable and more challenging. We modeled the economic and climate impacts of outfitting candidate hub sites across California with solar + storage for everyday operations and identified designs and costs required to withstand a range of outages considering weather impacts on energy needs and availability. We integrated sociodemographic data to prioritize the siting of resilience hub

SUBMITTER: Murphy PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11735336 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature