When electric grids go down, there’s no way to restore them — “blackstart” them — with power from wind turbines. Iowa State’s Hugo Villegas Pico is leading a team that’s working to develop strategies and controllers that would reenergize power grids dominated by wind power.
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After the Big Storm: How to Supply Emergency Power to Residents of Rural and Suburban Communities During Multi-Day Outages
New research suggests that cooperative strategies for sharing emergency power among households can be 10 to 40 times less costly than running individual gas-powered generators