Powering Resilient Cities The future of our energy system is diversified, distributed, and clean. Cities are epicenters of energy consumption, and can be vulnerable to large scale blackouts resulting from severe weather events and natural disasters, human error, or cyber-attacks. But decentralizing the grid through distributed microgrids, regions can fortify themselves to prevent widespread power failures. And by leveraging underutilized urban spaces, cities can facilitate the growth of distributed energy resources, from generation – like solar panels and small modular reactors – to energy storage like batteries and fuel cells, and even support electric vehicle charging and carbon capture technologies. This panel discussion on Powering Resilient Cities explores how municipal, business, and energy leaders are helping cities adapt to and overcome pressures imposed by climate change, the push to decarbonize, and the need for power system reliability.