Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System (2012) / Chapter Skim
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attacks were repeated several times, or undertaken in con- In the case of electric power delivery, there are several junction with more conventional terrorist attacks designed areas where federal funding is clearly justified and where to kill people, their impact could be considerably magnified. adequate preparation for possible terrorist attacks is not Because electric power transmission and distribution sys- likely to occur without federal involvement.
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Thus, in addition to strengthening the should: grid, society should also focus on identifying critical services and developing strategies to keep them operating in the event · Recommendation 1 Take the lead and work with the of power outages -- be they accidental or the result of terrorist DOE and with relevant private parties to develop and attack. These issues are discussed in Chapter 8, and recom- stockpile a family of easily transported high-voltage mendations are offered there to reduce future vulnerability.
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The industry itself will have to take the lead in vulnerabilities. These model assessments should involve addressing the shortage of craft workers, taking steps to per- all relevant public and private sector parties providing law suade new entrants to the job market that a career in power enforcement, water, gas, sewerage, health care, communicasystems is interesting and attractive.
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potential shortages have been identified, plans should be · Assess the potential for the cascading collapse of developed and implemented to take corrective action and long stretches of transmission line, and, where approdevelop needed resource inventories, stockpiles, and mobi- priate, include offsetting towers at various intervals, lization plans. Time Scale for Action: 2 Years (Assessments)
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Recommendations Primarily for State Government, Regions, and Communities Recommendation 8.4 Congress, DHS, and the states should provide resources and incentives to cover incremental costs Recommendation 8.3 State and local regions should underassociated with private and public sector risk prevention take regional and local vulnerability assessments, building and mitigation efforts to reduce the societal impact of an on the models provided by DHS, develop plans to collaboraextended grid outage. Such incentives could include incre- tively implement key strategies to reduce vulnerability, and mental funding for those aspects of systems that provide a assist private sector parties and individuals to identify steps public good but little private benefit, R&D support for new they can take to reduce their vulnerabilities.
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. Recommendation 9.5 Develop multilayer control strategies Recommendation 9.6 Develop improved energy storage that include capabilities to island and self-heal the power that can be deployed as dispersed systems.
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