Hybrid seminar at GERAD and Zoom.

In contexts of persistent grid unreliability, electricity systems evolve through the decentralized and often uncoordinated adoption of individual and community-level solutions. This talk analyzes such systems through complementary analytical lenses: optimal community-level investments under uncertain grid access, market dynamics in decentralized microgrids under weak regulation, and centralized planning with strategic consumers. Linking these lenses reveals how unreliability challenges conventional approaches to coordination, planning, and system design.