Resilience: New Threats and Opportunities for the Electric Grid of the Future

Victor Glass, Professor of Professional Practice, Director, and Scholar of the Center for the Research of Regulated Industries at Rutgers Business School hosted a webinar with leading experts to address the topic:
Resilience: New Threats and Opportunities for the Electric Grid of the Future

Theme: Hurricanes, wildfires, intermittent renewable energy sources, distributed energy resources – they are all testing the resilience of the grid to withstand sudden power interruptions and recover quickly from power outages. Defining resilience, developing metrics, estimating costs and benefits, and implementing policies to achieve a basic standard of resilience are key features of regulatory policy. This webinar brings together key industry leaders to discuss the challenges ahead.

Presenters
M. Granger Morgan, Hamerschlag University Professor of Engineering, Departments of Engineering and Public Policy and Electrical Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Morgan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences were he has chaired three consensus studies on electric power including the 2017 study, Enhancing the Resiliency of the Nation’s Electricity System.

John Moura, Director of Reliability Assessment and System Analysis for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and leads the development of NERC’s annual long-term and seasonal reliability assessments

Susan Tierney, Senior Advisor at Analysis Group; Former DOE assistant secretary for policy, Massachusetts secretary for environmental affairs, chairs DOE’s Electricity Advisory Committee; member of NAS Grid Resiliency Study panel

David G. Victor, Director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation and a professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego; Former director of Stanford’s Program on Energy and Sustainable Development and Stanford University Law — ; member of NAS Grid Resiliency Study panel

Moderator
Jeanne Fox, Adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Former President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities; member of 2017 NAS Grid Resiliency Study panel.
Key Questions
• What is the meaning of resilience?
• How is resilience different from reliability?
• Why is resilience hard to assess and measure?
• What does the changing topology of the grid mean to the regulatory community?

Originally aired December 9, 2020.

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