Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System (2017) / Chapter Skim
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Less frequently, major storms and other natural phe- and provides system operators with much better situational nomena, operations errors, and pernicious human actions can awareness; this can improve grid reliability and resilience in cause outages on the bulk power system (i.e., generators and the face of outages, but this added complexity can also introhigh-voltage power lines) as well as on distribution systems.
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This includes improving situational tive, and remedial actions, as well as how these impact plan- awareness in the control room, with a focus on severe ning, operation, and restoration over the entire life cycle of events and an inclusion of the cyber infrastructure, adding different kinds of grid failures. Strategies must be crafted more wide-area monitoring and control, and developing with awareness and understanding of the temporal arc of a control systems that better tolerate both accidental faults major outage, as well as how the needs differ from one type of and malicious attacks.
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Effective restoration must tricity system, including regional transmission organizations, begin well before the disaster through numerous preparatory investor-owned utilities, cooperatives, and municipally activities, including drills and stockpiling of key equipment. owned utilities, should work individually and collectively, Utilities and other electric service personnel must think about in cooperation with the Electricity Subsector Coordinating how they will assess damage, plan restoration, and marshal Council, regional and state authorities, the Federal Energy and deploy the necessary resources.
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Congress and the Department of Energy leadership should • Public and private parties should expand efforts to sustain and expand the substantive areas of research, devel- improve their ability to maintain and restore critical opment, and demonstration that are now being undertaken services -- such as power for hospitals, first responders, by the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery water supply and sewage systems, and communication and Energy Reliability and Office of Energy Efficiency and systems.3 Renewable Energy, with respect to grid modernization and • The Department of Energy, the Department of Homesystems integration, with the explicit intention of improving land Security, the Electricity Subsector Coordinating the resilience of the U.S. power grid.
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Energy and the Department of Homeland Security should jointly establish and support a "visioning" process with the Overarching Recommendation 5: The Department of objective of systematically imagining and assessing plausiEnergy, together with the Department of Homeland Secu- ble large-area, long-duration grid disruptions that could have rity, academic research teams, the national laboratories, and major economic, social, and other adverse consequences, companies in the private sector, should carry out a program focusing on those that could have impacts related to U.S. of research, development, and demonstration activities to dependence on vital public infrastructures and services proimprove the security and resilience of cyber monitoring and vided by the grid.
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National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, (Recommendations 4.2, 5.6, 5.12, and 6.3) the National Association of State Energy Officials, and state and regional grid operators and emergency preparedness Recommendation 4 to DOE: Work to improve the ability organizations, should establish a standing capability to to use computers, software, and simulation to research, plan, identify vulnerabilities, identify strategies to reduce local and operate the power system to increase resilience.
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Work with DHS and DOE to develop guidance regarding potential social equity implications of resilience investments Recommendation 6 to the electric power sector and DOE: as well as selective restoration. (Recommendations 5.2, 5.4, The owners and operators of electricity infrastructure should and 5.8)
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