Resilience through Self-Sufficiency in Smart Cities: A Preliminary Bucharest Use Case

Cities follow new trends towards extreme social and technological development. The Smart City concept includes many innovative aspects, but an essential one is the capability to generate its own clean energy, leading to an increased energy resilience and immunity against major disturbances, as a mitigation of the negative impact of global warming related extreme weather, but also of other blackout inducing events, such as cyber-attacks or evolving faults. The paper presents an assessment for both clean energy production using PVs and resilience, applied for Bucharest city and its neighbour zone Ilfov, showing the conditions for obtaining up to 100% renewable production and high resilience. In this paper, a financial analyse is also performed to check the feasibility of the scenarios, with or without using large storage resources, for achieving different levels of self-sufficiency¹.