2025/06/07 by Diana Rucavado Rojas, Jessica Kerby, Bethel Tarekegne · 1 voice
Environmental Science · #Energy and Environment Impacts
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s40518-025-00260-1
openalex publication_date 2025/06/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This paper reviews energy storage technologies as a possible solution to address power outages and mitigate the impacts, enhancing vulnerable communities’ resilience to climate change. More frequent and severe extreme weather events are one of the main consequences of climate change. These events, coupled with the nation’s aging and frail energy infrastructure, are causing many communities throughout the United States to experience more frequent and longer power outages, resulting in economic, health, and social impacts. Impacts from power outages are not equally felt across communities, with disproportionate impacts across communities representing a matter of energy justice. From an energy justice standpoint, programs and policies that facilitate energy storage technologies should be intentionally designed to include distributive, procedural, recognition, and restorative justice.