Electricity: Federal Efforts to Enhance Grid Resilience

Citation
Federal Efforts to Enhance Grid Resilience (Jan. 2017).

Overview
Since 2013, DOE, DHS, and FERC reported implementing 27 grid resiliency efforts and identified a variety of results from these efforts. The efforts addressed a range of threats and hazards—including cyberattacks, physical attacks, and natural disasters—and supported different types of activities (see table). These efforts also addressed each of the three federal priorities for enhancing the security and resilience of the electricity grid: (1) developing and deploying tools and technologies to enhance awareness of potential disruptions, (2) planning and exercising coordinated responses to disruptive events, and (3) ensuring actionable intelligence on threats is communicated between government and industry in a time-sensitive manner.