tailieunhanh - High-Impact, Low-Frequency Event Risk to the North American Bulk Power System

Often communities have to deal with local political considerations when they plan events. No specific advice can be given to the promoter except to warn him or her that political considerations are always important to the local community. Often a way to encourage elected political officials to support an event is to show the monetary or quality-of-life impact that a successful event would have on their communities or careers. Explaining the positive impact encourages officials to support the public safety coordinators by providing adequate local resources and funding. . | High-Impact Low-Frequency Event Risk to the North American Bulk Power System A Jointly-Commissioned Summary Report of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and the . Department of Energy s November 2009 Workshop NERC NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORPORATION June 2010 About This Report About the High-Impact Low-Frequency HILF Event Risk Effort The North American Electric Reliability Corporation NERC and the . Department of Energy DOE partnered in July of 2009 on an effort to address High-Impact Low-Frequency risks to the North American bulk power system. In August NERC formed a steering committee made up of industry and risk experts to lead the development of an initial workshop on the subject chaired by Scott Moore VP Transmission System Region Operations for American Electric Power and Robert Stephan Former Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection in the National Protection and Programs Directorate of the . Department of Homeland Security DHS . The workshop was held in Washington . on November 9-10 2009. The approximately 110 attendees at the closed session included representatives from the United States Congressional Staff Department of Defense DOD DHS DOE Department of Health and Human Services HHS EMP Commission and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC . Representatives from each of the North American electric industry s major sectors including investor owned utilities cooperatives and municipal utilities were also in attendance. The workshop was divided into three tracks Cyber or Physical Coordinated Attack Pandemic and Geomagnetic Disturbance Electro-magnetic Pulse risk. Each track was given a set of questions to answer as part of a moderated interactive dialog designed to identify next steps on each of these risks. Topics discussed during the working sessions included approaches to measure and monitor HILF risks potential mitigation steps and formulating an effective public private .