Natural and technical incidents remain a major cause of large-scale power failures. Storms, floods, heatwaves, and extreme weather can physically damage power lines, substations, and generation facilities. At the same time, industrial accidents, fires, excavation works, or technical defects can trigger outages that propagate across interconnected grids of different types. As electricity networks operate close to their capacity limits, even a localized failure can quickly evolve into a regional or national blackout.
Burnstone borrows lessons from computing environments that blend hardware topology and software applications to provide the desired functionality. This allows for more flexibility in dealing with systemic complexities at the intersection of different infrastructures. Instead of stiffened rigidity of demand response with purely hardware-based solutions, Burnstone offers adaptive and anticipatory support, coordination and orchestration of infrastructural resources.
