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Lessons from the Edge

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Innovating Energy Access for Remote Areas: Discovering Untapped Resources
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Lessons from the Edge

Presenters: Peter Newell (BMNT Partners)


Overview

Lessons learned by the Army in changing how it meets energy needs on the battlefield can well inform how energy solutions are brought to rural areas around the world.The high human cost of delivering energy on the battlefield led the Army to reexamine its assumptions about how energy is provided and used.Changing the way they framed the problem led to better energy solutions, saved lives, and made the missions more resilient.The resilience paradigm is also well suited to rural energy applications.Based on the Army’s lessons learned, the authors describe the attributes of a resilient system and discuss how these terms can be applied to instill energy resilience in rural communities[1].


References

  1. Lessons from the Edge. Peter Newell, David Kerner and Scott Thomas.