1E Building Energy Resilience: Large centralised vs. distributed systems

The DNA of renewables – their global availability and decentralised nature – can increase the resilience of energy systems. Renewables can improve technical resilience to the impacts of climate change, ensure sufficient access to stable energy sources (e.g., avoiding blackouts and brownouts) and provide flexibility. This session will challenge conventional concepts such as the need for and superiority of centralised baseload power stations and the supposed lack of reliability of systems based on variable renewable energy.