Detroit Power Outages: More Resilient Electric Grid Needed

Nature and Energy 
can Co-exist

As our society moves into the digital era it should create redundancies and work arounds for rolling blackouts and electric grid security. If power goes out in one neighborhood, power can be diverted directly from batteries and solar, allowing time with the least amount power downtime as possible (if any at all), to fix the wider system. The goal is to maintain power from multiple sources. 

As we think about renewable energy, also think of how solar on buildings, local solar farms, and other power generators can be used as back up to the larger system. When all is running well they are feeding everyone, when a black out or downed wire cuts power, the local source kicks in much like a generator. 

To do this well would require much stronger and efficient batteries with stronger solar use of buildings and other unused surfaces. The same can be said for the redundancy of our spaghetti wire electric infrastructure. Battery cells either within buildings or located in various geographic areas of a city might be helpful.

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