Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System
2017

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Americans' safety, productivity, comfort, and convenience depend on the reliable supply of electric power. The electric power system is a complex "cyber-physical" system composed of a network of millions of components spread out across the continent. These components are owned, operated, and regulated by thousands of different entities. Power system operators work hard to assure safe and reliable service, but large outages occasionally happen. Given the nature of the system, there is simply no way that outages can be completely avoided, no matter how much time and money is devoted to such an effort. The system's reliability and resilience can be improved but never made perfect. Thus, system owners, operators, and regulators must prioritize their investments based on potential benefits.

Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System focuses on identifying, developing, and implementing strategies to increase the power system's resilience in the face of events that can cause large-area, long-duration outages: blackouts that extend over multiple service areas and last several days or longer. Resilience is not just about lessening the likelihood that these outages will occur. It is also about limiting the scope and impact of outages when they do occur, restoring power rapidly afterwards, and learning from these experiences to better deal with events in the future.

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170 pages · 8.5 x 11 · paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-46307-6
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-46308-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/24836

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Front Matter i-xiv
Summary 1-7
1 Introduction and Motivation 8-16
2 Today's Grid and the Evolving System of the Future 17-49
3 The Many Causes of Grid Failure 50-69
4 Strategies to Prepare for and Mitigate Large-Area, Long-Duration Blackouts 70-93
5 Strategies for Reducing the Harmful Consequences from Loss of Grid Power 94-109
6 Restoring Grid Function After a Major Disruption 110-133
7 Conclusions 134-142
Appendix A: Statement of Task 143-143
Appendix B: Committee Biographies 144-148
Appendix C: Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest 149-149
Appendix D: Presentations and Committee Meetings 150-151
Appendix E: Examples of Large Outages 152-154
Appendix F: Acronyms 155-156

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