Connecticut Grid Resilience Assessment: A Strategic Guide for Key Stakeholders
Connecticut Grid Resilience Assessment: A Strategic Guide for Key Stakeholders
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Connecticut Grid Resilience Assessment: A Strategic Guide for Key Stakeholders
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Grid Resilience and Reliability

With preparedness at the forefront of ensuring superior customer service, Storm Outage Forecasting delivers actionable information on predicted outage locations and magnitude.

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Renewable Energy

With 90 percent of power outages during storms caused by trees, our program links forest management and community outreach for creating a sustainable and storm-resistant forest design.

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Cyber-physical Security

Complex system improvements are made with advanced data identifying strategic areas for grid design, efficiency and storm resiliency.                                                                                                   

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Workforce, Training, and Outreach

UConn is committed to attracting and training the skilled and diverse workforce of the technological, policy, socio-economic, and entrepreneurial ecosystem to ensure the sustainability of clean energy transition.

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Fast Facts

  • Interim Director: Professor Diego Cerrai, PhD
  • Associate Director Dr. Robert Fahey
  • Current research areas include 25 projects on storm outage forecasting, tree and forest management, electric grid reinforcements, resiliency, climate change and flooding, geomagnetic disturbances, integration of renewable generation, and cyber security.


Director’s Message

Welcome. Our research and collaboration with utilities and industry partners positions us as frontrunners in mitigating storm hazards, delivering improved reliability, and increasing the resiliency of the electric grid. Read More!

Rod Powel

Invite a Speaker

Would you like to invite a speaker from the Eversource Energy Center or from the University of Connecticut?

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Seminars

In addition to Eversource Energy Center-sponsored seminars and events, UConn offers interesting weekly presentations on all areas of research. 

Field Visits

Field Visits

We welcome you to visit our experimental tree sway field sites in Storrs, Torrington and Orange, Connecticut. Please contact Thomas Worthley, Assistant Extension Professor and Forestry Specialist, for more information.

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Center Tours

Do you wish to schedule a tour? Please contact us, and we can schedule a tour of our facilities.

Eversource Energy Center | Innovation Partnership Building: 159 Discovery Drive, Unit 5276, Storrs, CT 06269-5276 | E-Mail: eversourceenergycenter@uconn.edu