News Digest Item
26 May 2017

“Resilient energy systems can prevent blackouts”

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Resilience strategies for energy systems could help better compensate or prevent blackouts, German National Academy for Science and Engineering (acatech), Leopoldina and Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities said in a joint paper. The authors make several recommendations on how to make the energy system more resilient, including better monitoring, diversifying methods of power generation, building more energy storage, and more intensive participation of citizens.

Read the press release here and the paper in German here.

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