Community Resilience Hubs

Community resilience hubs are locally identified and community-serving facilities that provide residents year-round access to support resources. During extreme weather, they can reduce the burden on emergency response teams by supplying power before, during, and after grid outages through onsite energy systems. [Definition from U.S. Department of Energy, Better Buildings Solution Center -- https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/webinars/shelter-storm-powering-community-resilience-hubs. Note: A 2022 Better Buildings Webinar, linked at this URL, includes discussions from Florida and New Mexico, plus National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Staff.]

• Definition from Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) -- https://www.usdn.org/resilience-hubs.html

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• Ann Arbor, Michigan and Fulton County, Georgia: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/870ac0b1641c48f3aede91626a2c557a
• Los Angeles, California, study for heat-emergency events. https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CEMO-Comprehensive-Project-Report.pdf

• Brookings Institution 2015 report about schools as community hubs. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Horn-Freeland-Paper-FINAL.pdf
• Springer open access book, 2023, about Schools as community hubs. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-9972-7
• Toledo, Ohio, public schools 2022-23 report about Schools as Community Hubs. https://www.tps.org/community/community_hubs

• NEW: Michigan Community Resilience Hubs Appropedia Page. Michigan Community Resilience Hubs
• NEW: Community Hierarchy of Needs: A Community-focused framework to Build Trust, Reliability, and Resilience Hubs [Web page, retrieved Feb 2026], WeAccel.io, https://www.weaccel.io/resilience-hubs
• Duluth, Minnesota case study. Epstein, Gabe, 2023, Strengthening a Minnesota Community with Solar and Resilience, report for Clean Energy States Alliance, https://www.cesa.org/resource-library/resource/minnesota-case-study/

• DiFrancesco, Sofia, February 2023, Building Community Resilience -- Asset-Based Strategies to Increase the Adaptive Capacities of Vulnerable Communities through Implementation of Resilience Hubs, ArcGIS Playbook, https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/870ac0b1641c48f3aede91626a2c557a
• District of Columbia Law: https://doee.dc.gov/service/community-resilience-hubs
• Global Disaster Preparedness Center, Urban Community Resilience Toolkits [Web page retrieved August 2023], https://preparecenter.org/toolkit/urban-community-resilience-toolkits/
• Michael Liebman,  Ben Proffer. 2024, August 30. "Reality Check: Generator-Centric Disaster Response Is Out of Gas -- Solar-plus-storage microgrids, not generators, are a proven approach to resilience [Electronic Article], Rocky Mountain Institute, August 30, 2024. https://rmi.org/reality-check-generator-centric-disaster-response-is-out-of-gas/
  • Rocky Mountain Institute blog about Community Resilience Hubs in Texas, 2021: https://rmi.org/community-resilience-hubs/
• Oregon Law: https://www.orhubs.org/

[REFERENCES STILL TO STUDY AND INCORPORATE}:

• https://www.cleanegroup.org/initiatives/health-and-energy-security/solar-storage-microgrids-for-rural-community-health-centers/
• https://www.michiganpublic.org/transportation-infrastructure/2025-09-05/michigan-last-in-nation-in-2023-for-restoring-power-after-outages-says-utility-watchdog-report.  
• Sesame Solar Medical Facilities. https://sesame.solar.
• Washington State resilience hub microgrids, at church facilities. https://www.microgridknowledge.com/microgrids/community/article/55339783/student-led-solar-and-storage-project-unites-remote-washington-community-through-resilience
• Blechinger, P., Chinichian, N., Mhanna, J., Trittler, S. (2025). Müller, M. (Ed.), Digitalization in Off-Grid Systems (Report No. T18- 05:2025). IEA PVPS Task 18. https://doi.org/10.69766/XFZP8388
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62948-8
• MUTUAL AID. https://www.tdworld.com/resources/webinars/webinar/55308455/how-to-optimize-mutual-aid-management-for-faster-outage-response-and-customer-satisfaction

• Disaster preparedness
• Environmental justice activities
• Equity Crowd Investing
• Food access
• Other services fulfilling community needs   
• Public Purpose Microgrids

• Michigan Community Resilience Hubs