SEIA value of resilience breakfast in Indianapolis

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The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), Converge and SunPower are convening a panel discussion the morning of Monday, July 22, 2019. The breakfast event will be held on-site at the JW Marriott Indianapolis in Griffin Hall.

Severe weather, cybersecurity, and physical threats to electricity delivery have heightened awareness of the vulnerability of the nation’s electric system and highlight the need for greater grid resilience. These developments, when coupled with falling costs for distributed solar power and energy storage, are creating new business opportunities for the expansion of distributed generation, grid modernization technologies, and microgrids. Although it is clear that distributed energy resources can contribute to a more resilient and secure electric grid, it is unclear how to determine the value of those benefits. This breakfast will explore new research by NARUC, along with Converge Strategies, that reviews methodologies to quantify the value of energy resilience, particularly as it relates to investments in distributed energy resources, and examine why DERs, such as microgrids, solar photovoltaics and batteries, offer new avenues for achieving sustained resilience.

The breakfast will run from 7:30am – 8:45am, with the panel discussion beginning at 7:45am.