Full Title: Severe Impact Resilience: Considerations and Recommendations
Author(s): North American Electrical Reliability Corporation
Publisher(s): North American Electrical Reliability Corporation
Publication Date: May 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):
The North American bulk power system (BPS) is one of the most critical of infrastructures, vital to society in many ways, but it is not immune to severe disruptions that could threaten the health, safety, or economic well‐being of the citizens it serves. The electric power industry has well established planning and operating procedures in place to address “normal” emergency events (e.g., hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms) that occur from time to time and disrupt electric reliability. However, the electricity industry has much less experience with planning for and responding to high‐impact events that have a low probability of occurring.
To help the electricity industry better understand these low probability risks, NERC and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a report titled, “High‐Impact, Low‐Frequency Event Risk to the North American Bulk Power System”. Subsequently, the NERC Board of Trustees approved a Coordinated Action Plan under the leadership of the NERC Technical Committees to establish four Task Forces to address this work. This report provides the conclusions of the Severe Impact Resilience Task Force (SIRTF).