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This guide by RMI defines energy system resilience as a community's ability to maintain critical services during and after extreme weather, distinguishing it from reliability, which refers to day-to-day grid performance. The document outlines the necessity of resilience due to climate volatility, aging infrastructure, and increasing grid strain, while highlighting that vulnerable populations and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are disproportionately affected by outages.

This case study examines the City of Cape Town's efforts between 2014 and 2024 to pioneer Small-Scale Embedded Generation (SSEG) to combat South Africa's national power crisis and loadshedding. The City implemented a series of regulatory, technical, and financial interventions—including feed-in tariffs, smart metering, and a streamlined online application process—to enable the safe integration of renewable energy into the municipal grid. By June 2024, these initiatives resulted in approximately 6,400 authorised grid-tied SSEG systems with over 140 MVA of installed capacity, while facilitating significant private investment and job creation in the local green economy.

The report introduces 'community solar+', a strategic approach to designing community solar projects that maximizes local value streams and advances sustainability and equity goals beyond simple energy access.

This case study describes the Puerto Rico Community Energy Resilience Initiative (CERI), a program designed to increase energy resilience in low-to-moderate income communities through the installation of solar-plus-storage microgrids at critical facilities.

This report by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) outlines a community-based approach to enhancing energy resilience in the Upper Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado, in partnership with Holy Cross Energy (HCE). Following the 2018 Lake Christine Fire, which nearly disabled power to the region, RMI led a five-month stakeholder process to identify and prioritize distributed energy solutions. The report advocates for a shift from traditional grid hardening and isolated backup generators toward integrated distributed energy resources (DERs) that provide both emergency backup ("black sky") and daily operational ("blue sky") value.

This Request for Quotation (RFQ) issued by GreenCape seeks a service provider to develop a practical implementation plan for a "smart grid" in Cape Town. The goal is to transition the City of Cape Town's energy department to a service-centric energy model based on information communication technology (ICT) to address revenue challenges and improve energy resilience.

This case study examines the Darling Green Solar Project in Swartland Municipality, demonstrating how short-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) and the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) can be used to integrate renewable energy into municipal grids while maintaining financial flexibility.