Reimagining Grid Resilience

The document argues that the current US electricity grid is inherently fragile due to its linear dependencies and one-way flow of services, meaning disruptions in any single component can lead to customer outages.

• The US electricity system is a fundamental driver of national prosperity and economic growth, and outages resulting from a lack of reliability or resilience have severe consequences.
• The existing grid architecture is characterized by a one-way flow of services and value, creating linear dependencies that make the system inherently fragile and susceptible to outages if any individual component is disrupted.

APA

RMI (2020). Reimagining Grid Resilience. https://rmi.org/resources/reimagining-grid-resilience/

Chicago

RMI. Reimagining Grid Resilience. 2020. https://rmi.org/resources/reimagining-grid-resilience/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=RMI |title=Reimagining Grid Resilience |date=16 July 2020 |url=https://rmi.org/resources/reimagining-grid-resilience/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{rmi2020reimagining, author = {{RMI}}, title = {{Reimagining Grid Resilience}}, institution = {RMI}, year = {2020}, month = jul, url = {https://rmi.org/resources/reimagining-grid-resilience/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }