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Author Cooke, David W.

Title The resilience of the electric power delivery system in response to terrorism and natural disasters : summary of a workshop / David W. Cooke, Rapporteur ; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 32 pages) : illustrations, map
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Note "The National Research Council (NRC) released a report, Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System, in 2012 that analyzed the the vulnerability of the electric grid to terrorist attacks and measures to reduce that vulnerability. ... In order to expand familiarity with the report among potential users and explore recent and future trends, a workshop was held on February 27-28, 2013"--Page vii.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters is the summary of a workshop convened in February 2013 as a follow-up to the release of the National Research Council report Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System. That report had been written in 2007 for the Department of Homeland Security, but publication was delayed because of security concerns. While most of the committee's findings were still relevant, many developments affecting vulnerability had occurred in the interval. The 2013 workshop was a discussion of the committee's results, what had changed in recent years, and how lessons learned about the grid's resilience to terrorism could be applied to other threats to the grid resulting from natural disasters. The purpose was not to translate the entire report into the present, but to focus on key issues relevant to making the grid sufficiently robust that it could handle inevitable failures without disastrous impact. The workshop focused on five key areas: physical vulnerabilities of the grid; cybersecurity; mitigation and response to outages; community resilience and the provision of critical services; and future technologies and policies that could enhance the resilience of the electric power delivery system. The electric power transmission and distribution system (the grid) is an extraordinarily complex network of wires, transformers, and associated equipment and control software designed to transmit electricity from where it is generated, usually in centralized power plants, to commercial, residential, and industrial users. Because the U.S. infrastructure has become increasingly dependent on electricity, vulnerabilities in the grid have the potential to cascade well beyond whether the lights turn on, impacting among other basic services such as the fueling infrastructure, the economic system, and emergency services. The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters discusses physical vulnerabilities and the cybersecurity of the grid, ways in which communities respond to widespread outages and how to minimize these impacts, the grid of tomorrow, and how resilience can be encouraged and built into the grid in the future."--Publisher's description.
Contents ""FrontMatter ""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Grid Infrastructure""; ""3 Cybersecurity of the Grid""; ""4 Responding to Outages""; ""5 The Future of the Grid""; ""6 Summary of Main Points Raised in Workshop Discussions""; ""Appendix A: Authorship of Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System""; ""Appendix B: Workshop Participants""; ""Appendix C: Workshop Presentations and Discussions""
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Subject Electric power distribution -- Congresses.
Electric power distribution.
Electric power distribution -- Security measures -- Congresses.
Security systems.
Electric power systems -- Congresses.
Electric power systems.
Electric power systems -- Security measures -- Congresses.
Electric power systems -- Security measures.
Electric power failures -- Congresses.
Electric power failures.
Electric power systems -- Natural disaster effects -- Congresses.
Electric power systems -- Natural disaster effects.
Terrorism -- Congresses.
Terrorism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.
Added Title Terrorism and the electric power delivery system.
Other Form: Print version: Cooke, David W. Resilience of the electric power delivery system in response to terrorism and natural disasters. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2013 9780309293952 (OCoLC)869896329
ISBN 9780309293969 (electronic book)
0309293960 (electronic book)
9780309293952
0309293952