NIRU

NIRU is a personal and professional endeavor to understand resiliency in complex systems.

My name is Faramarz Maghsoodlou. I am a Systems Engineer by education and profession. Over nearly four decades, I have learned to model, simulate, design, control, and optimize complex systems. As in all engineering disciplines, this is generally done with assumptions on the system structure, initial condition, operating states, purpose, and recovery requirements, always within a bounded state space. Resilience on the other hand is one of those properties that cannot be easily engineered into a system. It is an emergent property that is manifested over time, at higher levels of complexity, as the system reacts and learns to adapt to different conditions. 

In these blogs we explore the concept of resilience in complex socio-economic and technological systems with emphasis on energy systems. We study resilience across the energy value chain, from individual sites to the bulk power grid and across different time scales. Our goal is to research and develop solutions for a more resilient, reliable, sustainable, and equitable energy system. 

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