# kaal:claim:3709041-035

**Claim.** Coordinating large numbers of decentralized energy resources from a central point of control is slow, inefficient, and resource intensive, a vulnerability demonstrated by the 2001 U.S. Western Energy Crisis and the 2003 Northeast Blackout.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- applies to centrally managed grids coordinating distributed energy resources

**Source quote.**

> Coordinating larger numbers of decentralized resources from a central point of control is slow, inefficient, and resource-intensive.

**From.** Kaal, *Blockchain Technology for Good* (2020), III.1.e Environmental, page 24

**Cite as.** Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `5216a7bca45a48e3bef11ec524936e66af737c0fd66271e9f6866dc20a4482cc` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202020%20-%20Blockchain%20Technology%20for%20Good.pdf

**Failure mode.** central coordination failure in distributed energy grids  (family: scalability-and-throughput-limit)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** energy-grid, central-coordination, distributed-energy, grid-resilience

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