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Severe storms are fast-tracking grid resiliency projects
Brad Langley talks with Arushi about how living through grid failures is changing attitudes toward resilience projects.
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In brief
When Winter Storm Uri hit Texas in 2021, Arushi was on Tesla’s U.S. energy policy team, working to convince Texas regulators to let a 100-megawatt battery connect to the grid; after the storm, regulators approved Tesla’s pilot projects. Now running her own grid resiliency consultancy, she tells Brad Langley about helping community groups in New Orleans draft a virtual power plant and microgrid proposal, and why experiencing grid failures is changing how customers and the industry see resilience.
Key points
- 01How Winter Storm Uri led Texas regulators to approve Tesla’s pilot projects.
- 02The New Orleans community proposal for a virtual power plant and microgrids.
- 03Why people who live through outages quickly see the value of resilience projects.
