Small, local energy technologies to help sustain vital services during blackouts

submitted by Samuel Bendett

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - July 12th, 2012

Researchers suggest that rethinking the solution to sustaining electric power — namely, starting small — could keep critical services going, even when the high-voltage grid is crippled; the U.S. military is already taking steps to protect its power supplies in the event of a massive grid failure by adopting small, local energy technologies, and California governor Jerry Brown recently announced that he wants 12,000 megawatts of such power supplies in his state.

Keeping the lights on can be a challenge during extreme weather and other disasters like those affecting the East Coast of the United States this summer, but real options may be available to avoid some of the power-related crises that follow upon such events.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University suggest that rethinking the solution to sustaining electric power — namely, starting small — could keep critical services going, even when the high-voltage grid is crippled.

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