Lebanon microgrid resilience

Can microgrids enhance power system resilience?

Microgrids are emerging as an effective solution for enhancing power system resilience while providing opportunities to integrate distributed renewable energy generation efficiently into the utility grid during normal operations.

What is a microgrid resilience assessment?

A microgrid’s resilience assessment begins with listing all relevant threats to a system, inclusive of severe weather events (i.e. thunderstorms), natural disasters (i.e. earthquakes), and human factors (i.e. terrorism). Threat likelihoods are parameterized as described above and assigned a level of importance.

Can microgrids reduce urban resilience?

As an interim result, the fact that individual microgrids can fail makes it clear that the risk for lack of well-being and urban resilience in a city can be reduced with the use of multiple microgrids instead of one. These points are ultimately confirmed by our study (Fig. 5).

Do critical infrastructure systems affect resilience modeling of a microgrid?

Critical Infrastructure (CI) systems pose threats to microgrid operation due to their highly interdependent nature. The impact of interdependencies between CI systems on resilience modeling of the microgrid is discussed. Due to interruptions in natural gas and/or water supply, there are threats to the microgrid.

Are microgrids a resilient alternative to building level backup generators?

Microgrids can add additional resiliency beyond the current DoD practice of building level backup generators.

Are microgrids resilient during disruptive events?

Microgrids can be made more resilient during a disruptive event by considering a set of mitigation measures in the planning phase of their design. This increases microgrids' robustness or resistance and maintains supply. (In the Original Operational Mode section of Fig. 8 )