MicroFews
Research Area
Arctic Communities
Coupling infrastructure improvements to food-energy-water (FEW) system dynamics in small cold region communities
The goal of the MicroFEWs project is to develop a new holistic approach to understanding the linkages between renewable energy use and its downstream impacts upon food, energy, and water (FEW) security in remote Arctic and Subarctic communities. The power grids in such communities, termed islanded microgrids, represent nuclei around which this study frames the local FEW nexus, and the introduction of renewable energy into these systems provide the perturbations necessary to understand system dynamics. This process will be developed through close cooperation with community stakeholders from beginning to end.