Solar fundamentals
Industry Term

Energy resilience

Energy resilience is the ability of a home, business, or system to keep essential energy available during outages or abnormal grid conditions.

What does Energy resilience mean?

Energy resilience is the ability of a home, business, or system to keep essential energy available during outages or abnormal grid conditions.

How does Energy resilience affect PV system design, production, or customer expectations?

Backup design starts by separating loads that must run during an outage from loads that can remain off. Inverter output, battery capacity, transfer equipment, load-starting current, local code, and user expectations all shape the final backup configuration.

Practical design considerations

  • Use the term consistently across product pages, technical documents, and support content.