National Academies Press: OpenBook
« Previous: Appendix B: Workshop Participants
Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Presentations and Discussions." National Research Council. 2013. The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18535.
×

Appendix C
Workshop Presentations and Discussions

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Welcome

Ralph Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences

Peter Blair, Executive Director, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council

Review of Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System

Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University (NRC Panel Chair) - Presentation

Current and Future Needs for the Electric Power Delivery System

Panel Discussion

Massoud Amin, University of Minnesota (cyber security needs) - Presentation

David Owens, Edison Electric Institute (physical infrastructure needs) - Presentation

Jay Apt, Carnegie Mellon University (mitigation and restoration) - Presentation

Sue Tierney, Analysis Group (resilience and critical services)

DOE: A Key Partner in Ensuring a More Resilient and Secure Electric Power Delivery System

Patricia Hoffman, Department of Energy - Presentation

What Is Industry’s Role Moving Forward?

Fred Hintermeister, North American Electric Reliability Corporation - Presentation

Cyber Security Needs

Understanding Critical Cyber Vulnerabilities

Panel Discussion

Galen Rasche, Electric Power Research Institute - Presentation

Paul Nielsen, Software Engineering Institute

Terry Boston, PJM Interconnection - Presentation

Open Discussion on Cyber Security of the Grid

Moderated by Massoud Amin, University of Minnesota - Presentation

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Presentations and Discussions." National Research Council. 2013. The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18535.
×

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Welcome and Introduction

Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University (NRC Panel Chair)

Physical Vulnerability

The Future of the Electric Grid

John Kassakian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Presentation

The DHS transformer program

Sarah Mahmood, Department of Homeland Security - Presentation followed by Q&A

Open Discussion on the Physical Vulnerability of the Grid

Moderated by David Owens, Edison Electric Institute

Mitigation and Restoration

Power Disruptions in the United States and Improving Restoration of Service

Panel Discussion

Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University - Presentation

Steve Whitley, NYISO - Presentation

Mike Adibi, IRD Corp. - Presentation

Open Discussion on Mitigation and Response

Moderated by Jay Apt, Carnegie Mellon University

Resilience and Critical Services

Reducing Risk and Increasing National Resilience

Panel Discussion

Gerry Galloway, University of Maryland (NRC Committee on Disaster Resilience) -Presentation

David Kaufman, DHS/Federal Emergency Management Agency

Open Discussion on Resilience

Moderated by Sue Tierney, Analysis Group

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Presentations and Discussions." National Research Council. 2013. The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18535.
×

What Can We Do to Move Forward?
(Q&A following each speaker)

The Regulatory Environment

Joseph McClelland, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

How Policy Will Shape Utilities Moving Forward

Miles Keogh, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Open Discussion on Policy Options

Moderated by Granger Morgan , Carnegie Mellon University (NRC Panel Chair)

Research and Development Opportunities

Clark Gellings, Electric Power Research Institute - Presentation

Closing Remarks

Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University (NRC Panel Chair)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Presentations and Discussions." National Research Council. 2013. The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18535.
×
Page 30
Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Presentations and Discussions." National Research Council. 2013. The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18535.
×
Page 31
Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Presentations and Discussions." National Research Council. 2013. The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18535.
×
Page 32
The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters: Summary of a Workshop Get This Book
×
Buy Paperback | $45.00 Buy Ebook | $36.99
MyNAP members save 10% online.
Login or Register to save!
Download Free PDF

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.

  1. ×

    Welcome to OpenBook!

    You're looking at OpenBook, NAP.edu's online reading room since 1999. Based on feedback from you, our users, we've made some improvements that make it easier than ever to read thousands of publications on our website.

    Do you want to take a quick tour of the OpenBook's features?

    No Thanks Take a Tour »
  2. ×

    Show this book's table of contents, where you can jump to any chapter by name.

    « Back Next »
  3. ×

    ...or use these buttons to go back to the previous chapter or skip to the next one.

    « Back Next »
  4. ×

    Jump up to the previous page or down to the next one. Also, you can type in a page number and press Enter to go directly to that page in the book.

    « Back Next »
  5. ×

    Switch between the Original Pages, where you can read the report as it appeared in print, and Text Pages for the web version, where you can highlight and search the text.

    « Back Next »
  6. ×

    To search the entire text of this book, type in your search term here and press Enter.

    « Back Next »
  7. ×

    Share a link to this book page on your preferred social network or via email.

    « Back Next »
  8. ×

    View our suggested citation for this chapter.

    « Back Next »
  9. ×

    Ready to take your reading offline? Click here to buy this book in print or download it as a free PDF, if available.

    « Back Next »
Stay Connected!