Long Story Short: Eliza Hotchkiss on Place-Based Energy Resilience (Text Version)

This is the text version of the video Long Story Short: Eliza Hotchkiss on Place-Based Energy Resilience.

This video features an interview with NREL's Eliza Hotchkiss on how place-based strategies can help define, measure, and monetize energy resilience so that communities and organizations across the globe can better understand and respond to changing conditions from extreme climate events, cyber threats, and changing infrastructure.

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Every day, you turn on the news and you see information about new events occurring—cyber attacks, or extreme weather events, situations in locations that haven't historically had to deal with these types of events.

So that's just reinstating and reinvigorating the importance of energy security and resilience research as well as understanding what mitigation solutions exist.

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It's important to take a place-based approach to resilience work so you're focusing on the natural hazards that are relative and relevant to that location but then also focusing on the hazards and threats that are going to impact the organization.

Some of the challenges that our team is looking at in energy security and resilience is understanding how people define resilience, how do they measure resilience? And how are they monetizing and implementing solutions.

One example of a resilience project that we are working on and have been working on for about two years is supporting the National Park Service with resilience assessments, and trying to understand from an ecosystem perspective, what are the systems that help the park service continue to operate and really be successful in their mission?

As a federally funded research and development center, we work with all sorts of partners and have a lot of different collaborations. We work with universities, we work with federal agencies, communities, tribes, and we work with international governments.

I think there are no limits on this type of work. There are constant changes in conditions. It's important to understand those changes and incorporate probabilistic modeling, understand uncertainty, and where there are areas that we can improve these types of solutions and analyses, just to continue to push the needle forward.

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