Energy Resilience
Energy Resilience
The term "energy resilience" means the ability to avoid, prepare for, minimize, adapt to, and recover from anticipated and unanticipated energy disruptions in order to ensure energy availability and reliability sufficient to provide for mission assurance and readiness, including mission essential operations related to readiness, and to execute or rapidly reestablish mission essential requirements.
The North Olympic Peninsula needs resilient, reliable power. Goals for developing energy resilience include:
- Identifying top community priorities, challenges and opportunities
- Understanding current and planned initiatives
- Assessing the feasibility, viability, and desirability of potential solutions
- Prioritizing projects and actions to best meet multiple goals
- Identifying potential funding for prioritized projects
- Developing the relationships that will be required for a sustained effort
Projects
NODC partnered with PNNL and regional stakeholders, including local governments, tribal communities, public utilities, and economic development agencies, on an Energy Futures Conference for the North Olympic Peninsula.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will explore the feasibility of Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) to increase grid resilience on the North Olympic Peninsula. As a partner on the project, NODC will build on previous regional planning processes for climate change adaptation, natural disaster resilience and energy to develop and lead a multi-criteria decision-making approach to engage communities and Tribes across the Peninsula in the project to identify needs and define important project metrics.
Contact info
NODC
P.O. Box 2526
Port Angeles, WA 98362
info@noprcd.org
