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Energy Justice Through Energy Storage: Supporting Energy Resilience in Disadvantaged Communities

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports

DOI: 10.1007/s40518-025-00260-1

Authors: Diana Rucavado Rojas, Jessica Kerby, Bethel Tarekegne

Institution: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Language: English

Topic: Environmental Justice and Health Disparities

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Climate action, Affordable and clean energy, Reduced inequalities, Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,990