Research Catalog

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.

Author

Cooke, David W.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2013.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Description

ix, 32 p. : ill., map; 28 cm.

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.

Alternative Title

Terrorism and the electric power delivery system.

Subjects

• Terrorism
• Electric power failures > Congresses
• Terrorism > Congresses
• Resilience
• Product service
• Electric power systems > Security measures > Congresses
• Electric power distribution > Security measures > Congresses
• Electric power
• Disasters
• Electric power systems > Congresses
• Electric power systems > Natural disaster effects > Congresses
• Electric power distribution > Congresses

Note

• NETC LRC call no. HD 9502 .U52 C772 2013
• "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"--P. vii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online.

ISBN

• 9780309293952
• 0309293952

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries