Climate-induced extreme weather events, as well as other natural and human-caused disasters, have the potential to increase the duration and frequency of large power outages. Resilience, in the form of supplying a small amount of power to homes and communities, can mitigate outage consequences by sustaining critical electricity-dependent services. Public decisions about investing in resilience depend, in part, on how much residential customers value those critical services. Here we develop a method to estimate residential willingness-to-pay for back-up electricity services in the event of a large 10-day blackout during very cold winter weather, and then survey a sample of 483 residential customers across northeast USA using that method. Respondents were willing to pay US$1.7–2.3 kWh^–1 to sustain private demands and US$19–29 day^–1 to support their communities. Previous experience with long-duration outages and the framing of the cause of the outage (natural or human-caused) did not affect willingness-to-pay.

由气候引起的极端天气事件以及其他自然和人为灾难有可能增加大型停电的持续时间和频率。通过为家庭和社区提供少量电力的形式，弹性可以通过维持关键的电力相关服务来减轻停电后果。关于抗灾力投资的公共决策部分取决于住宅客户对这些关键服务的重视程度。在这里，我们开发了一种方法来估算在非常寒冷的冬季天气中发生10天大停电的情况下，居民为备用电服务付费的意愿，然后使用该方法对美国东北部的483个居民用户进行抽样调查。受访者愿意支付$ 1.7-2.3 kWh ^–1来维持私人需求，并以19–29美元/天的费用^–1支持他们的社区。长期停机和造成停机原因（自然或人为因素）的以往经验并没有影响付款意愿。