Full Title: SEPA Resilience Playbook for States and Utilities
Author(s): Mac Keller, Jared Leader
Publisher(s): Smart Electric Power Alliance
Publication Date: August 19, 2024
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Description (excerpt):
SEPA’s Resilience Planning Playbook provides state energy offices and utilities with a starting point to address the role of distribution system resilience in the clean energy transition. This playbook utilizes traditional electric utility best practices (e.g., system reliability and capacity planning) and emerging best practices (e.g., environmental justice, energy equity, and critical infrastructure considerations) to help states and utilities understand the tools needed to ensure resilience in light of changing customer needs and demands. It introduces various tools for improving resilience planning (e.g., grid modernization, grid hardening, and distributed energy resources).
In 2020, the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) developed The Microgrid Playbook to support the industry in addressing community resilience to natural hazard risks via microgrid deployment. SEPA’s latest “Resilience Playbook for States and Utilities” builds on this resource and our experience working directly with our state energy offices and utility members across the country. This playbook focuses on distribution system planning concepts, disadvantaged communities, and the vital coordination of stakeholders and data sharing to identify resilience needs and funding opportunities to prioritize investments successfully.