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About that national conversation on resilience of the electric grid: The urgent need for guidance and action

By District Energy posted 12-13-2017 13:54

  

Sue Tierney, Utility Dive

Summary

"Resilience” is perhaps the newest, most popular term in the electric industry’s lexicon these days.  

If it’s not about the utter lack of resilience after Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico’s electric grid, then it’s about Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s September 2017 proposal − initiated in the name of resilience − to preserve financially challenged baseload power plants. Action on this resilience proposal will be high on the agenda of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, now that its bench is back at full strength and its five members use the next month to reflect on the record before the agency. 

Before and after those events, utility companies, government officials, academics, and industry analysts have spent countless hours trying to identify what steps are needed to make the electric system more resilient in the face of increasingly inevitable cyberattacks, extreme weather events, acts of terrorism, and human error – or worse, the combination of some or all of these events.  Those efforts are completely laudable.  

But still more is needed, and here are some suggestions.

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