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Resilience Training for the Public Utility Commission of Texas

Publication Type

Presentation

Date Published

08/2023

Authors

Larsen, Peter H, Lisa C Schwartz, Joe Paladino

Abstract

The Public Utility Commission of Texas asked staff at Berkeley Lab and the U.S. Department of Energy to provide training in preparation for a rulemaking on resiliency plans that Transmission & Distribution Utilities will file pursuant to recent legislation. This training covers the following topics:

Estimating the Economic Impacts of Power Interruptions (or the Value of Reliability/Resilience)
Economic Impacts of Widespread, Long Duration Power Interruptions
Distribution System, Grid Modernization, and Resilience Planning
Integrated Distribution System Planning: Status, Challenges, and Approaches
Causes and Impacts of Grid Outages, Metrics for Measuring Resilience, and Valuing and Prioritizing Strategies