This is a topic that has been discussed many, many time in the IET Railway Technical Network Executive Committee meetings, with lots of different views and opinions on what is needed and how it could work. Anyone got any thoughts on this?
As demonstrated last year across England and Wales, a power outage that brought trains, industry, hospitals, homes, etc, relying on grid distributed electricity, to a standstill, highlights that electrification of everything adds a huge vulnerability to society - we need energy resilience and diversity of an integrated energy system in the future as we have today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49300025
As demonstrated last year across England and Wales, a power outage that brought trains, industry, hospitals, homes, etc, relying on grid distributed electricity, to a standstill, highlights that electrification of everything adds a huge vulnerability to society - we need energy resilience and diversity of an integrated energy system in the future as we have today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49300025
