Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council

Overview
According to the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council's charter, the council's purpose includes coordinating activities and initiatives designed to improve the reliability and resilience of the electricity subsector, including the electricity grid, and serving as the principal liaison between the council's membership and the Energy Sector Government Coordinating Council.

Among other things, the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council is meant to facilitate the identification and sharing of tools and technologies to improve electricity subsector security and resilience, and to collaborate with the federal government on coordinated government-industry preparedness and response planning for events of national significance. The council includes utility chief executive officers and trade association leaders representing all segments of the electric power industry. The council's charter calls for it to meet with the Energy Sector Government Coordinating Council at least once each year.

Among other things, the Energy Sector Government Coordinating Council is meant to identify energy sector resiliency issues that need interagency and public-private coordination; identify strategies to correct or eliminate gaps or overlaps in plans, programs, and policies; facilitate the sharing of approaches and results of successful resiliency programs; and leverage complementary resources within and between federal agencies and industry. The council includes representatives from various levels of government (federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal) and is co-chaired by representatives from DOE and DHS. The council's charter calls for it to meet at least three times each year.

Source

 * Electricity: Federal Efforts to Enhance Grid Resilience, at 11 & fns 33 and 33.