Resilient Virginia is working with Virginia Energy and other partners on the US DOE funded Virginia  Energy Resiliency Study (VERS). This project is working with economically impacted communities to measure their energy resilience and identify practical long-term solutions to reduce their vulnerabilities. There are two phases of the project that will involve community participation.

Phase One

During this phase, James Madison University Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Energy is developing a tool to measure community energy resilience. Communities are invited to test the tool (which will be in the form of a workbook) and provide feedback. After testing the tool, communities will receive their personalized Energy Resilience Profile which will help them understand their vulnerabilities and ways they can reduce them.

Phase Two

During this phase, the team will work closely with ten Virginia communities on case study design projects. These case studies will result in a customized engineering design for an energy resilience hub.

NOTE: Communities can choose to participate in Phase One or Phase Two or they can choose to participate in both phases.