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Protecting Infrastructure in Uncertain Times
We live in a time of immense change and swirling threats. A worldwide pandemic coupled with surging climate-related disasters and an accelerating digital transformation has concentrated minds. Resilience is no longer a niche topic for business continuity specialists but at the top of leaders’ action lists: and the time to act is now.
In this report, Guidehouse explores the key infrastructure resilience challenges that organizations face, the need to rethink old models of resilience in favor of a more holistic, evolutionary approach, and how best to create a strategy to build resilience.
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How Joplin Overcame Disaster to Rebuild and Renew
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How Joplin Overcame Disaster to Rebuild and Renew
Teamwork
In the aftermath of the disaster, it was striking how strongly residents pulled together to work on reconstruction. Stakeholders, likewise, put aside short-term differences of objectives and worked together on a common goal, engaging deeply with the community.
Innovation
Rather than rebuild the city on its old footprint, Joplin seized the opportunity to build more sustainably and futureproof the community, creating a bold vision of renewal that transcends resilience alone.
Resourcefulness
Joplin’s journey back from the 2011 disaster has been a long and winding one. Throughout, the city has drawn on both internal resources and external expertise to chart its own course.
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The way everyone came together was exceptional. We were all working to build back better, to build back a stronger, more resilient community.”
Dami Kehinde
Associate Director
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From the immediate stage of disaster recovery through to the longer-term process of preparing the city to withstand looming mid-century challenges, Joplin displayed many of the characteristics that help entities build resilient systems:
Events such as physical attack, cyber-attack, environmental disasters, and geopolitical events are risks that can directly impact the normal operation of the grid. Unchecked, these events can cause grid outages which if prolonged can expand to impact communications, transportation, supply chain, emergency and safety services. These are critical services society depends on for normal operation. When these services are impacted society starts to experience issues with all energy supplies, with critical asset replenishment, with financial markets and possibly require government intervention. The key is to mitigate the risks as close to the point of origin, within the grid domain, to prevent the outward migration of impact.
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How IKI is Developing a Sustainable Cooling Industry
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Innovation
IKI is not only open to new ways of doing things, but goes out of its way to source them. The inspiration behind the Cool Up program was an ideas competition, with grant funding for successful organizations.
Connectedness
As part of the German government’s Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, IKI boasts strong links to both governments and NGOs.
Teamwork
IKI supports partner countries across the globe, with many different political and business cultures. This experience of international collaboration helps it brace the efforts of four very different nations.
IKI’s broad remit spans international climate initiatives in developing and emerging countries around the world, including a sustainable cooling portfolio. The agency’s Cool Up program exemplifies some common strengths found in entities that successfully build infrastructure resilience:
The way everyone came together was exceptional. We were all working to build back better, to build back a stronger, more resilient community.”
Dami Kehinde
Associate Director
We’re working in the international space, but we’re also connecting the outcomes to implementation in different countries. It’s really about understanding the international needs, understanding the country need,
and linking that to implementation and enabling scale-up.”
Katja Eisbrenner
Director
How Joplin Overcame Disaster to Rebuild and Renew
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Teamwork
In the aftermath of the disaster, it was striking how strongly residents pulled together to work on reconstruction. Stakeholders, likewise, put aside short-term differences of objectives and worked together on a common goal, engaging deeply with the community.
Innovation
Rather than rebuild the city on its old footprint, Joplin seized the opportunity to build more sustainably and futureproof the community, creating a bold vision of renewal that transcends resilience alone.
Resourcefulness
Joplin’s journey back from the 2011 disaster has been a long and winding one. Throughout, the city has drawn on both internal resources and external expertise to chart its own course.
From the immediate stage of disaster recovery through to the longer-term process of preparing the city to withstand looming mid-century challenges, Joplin displayed many of the characteristics that help entities build resilient systems:
The way everyone came together was exceptional. We were all working to build back better, to build back a stronger, more resilient community.”
Dami Kehinde
Associate Director
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How Joplin Overcame Disaster to Rebuild and Renew
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Teamwork
In the aftermath of the disaster, it was striking how strongly residents pulled together to work on reconstruction. Stakeholders, likewise, put aside short-term differences of objectives and worked together on a common goal, engaging deeply with the community.
Innovation
Rather than rebuild the city on its old footprint, Joplin seized the opportunity to build more sustainably and futureproof the community, creating a bold vision of renewal that transcends resilience alone.
Resourcefulness
Joplin’s journey back from the 2011 disaster has been a long and winding one. Throughout, the city has drawn on both internal resources and external expertise to chart its own course.
From the immediate stage of disaster recovery through to the longer-term process of preparing the city to withstand looming mid-century challenges, Joplin displayed many of the characteristics that help entities build resilient systems:
The way everyone came together was exceptional. We were all working to build back better, to build back a stronger, more resilient community.”
Dami Kehinde
Associate Director
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How IKI is Developing a Sustainable Cooling Industry
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How Duke Energy Florida is Futureproofing its Grid
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How Joplin Overcame Disaster to Rebuild and Renew
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Teamwork
In the aftermath of the disaster, it was striking how strongly residents pulled together to work on reconstruction. Stakeholders, likewise, put aside short-term differences of objectives and worked together on a common goal, engaging deeply with the community.
Innovation
Rather than rebuild the city on its old footprint, Joplin seized the opportunity to build more sustainably and futureproof the community, creating a bold vision of renewal that transcends resilience alone.
Resourcefulness
Joplin’s journey back from the 2011 disaster has been a long and winding one. Throughout, the city has drawn on both internal resources and external expertise to chart its own course.
From the immediate stage of disaster recovery through to the longer-term process of preparing the city to withstand looming mid-century challenges, Joplin displayed many of the characteristics that help entities build resilient systems:
The way everyone came together was exceptional. We were all working to build back better, to build back a stronger, more resilient community.”
Dami Kehinde
Associate Director
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How Joplin Overcame Disaster to Rebuild and Renew
“““
Teamwork
In the aftermath of the disaster, it was striking how strongly residents pulled together to work on reconstruction. Stakeholders, likewise, put aside short-term differences of objectives and worked together on a common goal, engaging deeply with the community.
Innovation
Rather than rebuild the city on its old footprint, Joplin seized the opportunity to build more sustainably and futureproof the community, creating a bold vision of renewal that transcends resilience alone.
Resourcefulness
Joplin’s journey back from the 2011 disaster has been a long and winding one. Throughout, the city has drawn on both internal resources and external expertise to chart its own course.
From the immediate stage of disaster recovery through to the longer-term process of preparing the city to withstand looming mid-century challenges, Joplin displayed many of the characteristics that help entities build resilient systems:
The way everyone came together was exceptional. We were all working to build back better, to build back a stronger, more resilient community.”
Dami Kehinde
Associate Director
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How Duke Energy Florida is Futureproofing its Grid
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Flexibility
Duke Energy Florida is a forward-looking company, with investments running the gamut from floating solar and microgrids to electric vehicle charging stations and self-optimizing grids. While not all of these projects fall under the hardening plan, the attitude that produced them helped the utility approach the challenge of resilience with an open mind.
Commitment
Duke Energy understands the urgency of infrastructure resilience in the era of climate change, along with the challenges this endeavor presents. Modernizing and hardening the grid was part of an integrated overall strategy, not simply a response to legislation.
Preparedness
With a heritage dating back to the 19th century, and many decades of experience in addressing storm restoration and damage prevention, Duke Energy Florida has disaster recovery planning embedded in its DNA.
Grid hardening and modernization are vital to utilities in all jurisdictions as the fossil fuel transition and climate change impacts intensify both demands and risks. Duke Energy Florida’s grid modernization journey demonstrates many of the attributes entities need to create resilience:
The way everyone came together was exceptional. We were all working to build back better, to build back a stronger, more resilient community.”
Dami Kehinde
Associate Director
There has to be a very sound methodology any time that you’re substantiating a multibillion-dollar plan. The scrutiny on it will be very close to make sure it’s a good investment for the customers. We had a laundry list: We had to make sure there were a thousand things checked off.”
Chip Wood
Partner
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A wildfire event forces shutdown of a transmission line. If we've built redundancy/resiliency into the system we've detected the deteriorating line conditions and can proactively switch the load to other transmission lines. If we have not then an entire transmission zone loses power including pumping stations for the water system used to fight the wildfire.
Wildfire caused power outages are in day 3 and regional cellular communications are going offline as battery backups fail. This forces field crews to use old voice radio to dispatch work and request parts slowing repair. Emergency and safety services are having difficulty getting fuel to operate their fleets as a high volume of calls come in.
Wildfire event has overwhelmed local and regional resources and requires the government to bring in military or federal assets. Those government resources usurp command and control of all mitigation and restoration resources in the area, including utility crews.
Environmental Event Scenario
A trade war between the U.S. and China has escalated due to retaliatory sanctions placed on cheap Chinese aluminum and copper being dumped on the U.S. market. The U.S. has banned the import of copper and aluminum products from China impacting supply of repair/replacement wire and cable to U.S. Utilities.
The military actions of Russia in Ukraine have resulted in a flurry of hacking, primarily malware and ransomware across the U.S. In response the U.S. isolates the U.S. Internet from European networks and inadvertently cuts off vendor access and support for the Generation Management Systems being implemented delaying bringing needed capacity online.
Russia has closed off shipping lanes to Europe stranding new and replacement transmission and distribution transformers from reaching the U.S. from European suppliers. The absence of these assets impacts the ramp up of multiple large commercial developments in the U.S.
Geopolitical Event Scenario
An anti-government group executes a coordinated small arms attack on a dozed regional transmission substations causing the entire transmission network to collapse and regional outages to occur. If we had implemented opaque security barriers and transformer monitoring we could have mitigated the impact and duration of the attack.
The widespread outages are extended and unfortunately timed to the highest demand period during summer heat. Elderly and compromised citizens are at high risk of death and the health-care system becomes overwhelmed.
Government declares the events acts of terrorism and imposes marshal law at utility substations and operations facilities. The heightened security requirements and costs decrease overall productivity and increase costs. Financial markets reduce performance forecasts for the utility and the stock value begins a steady decline.
Physical Attack Scenario
A cyberattack event has hit the distribution control system forcing it offline and all downstream automation resets to default values increasing capacity and protection ranges which cause DERs to start dropping from service. If we had advanced OT cybersecurity to prevent the cyber event we'd prevent the DER load shedding and cascading outages.
Without the distribution control system the grid is experiencing rolling blackouts and safety services are seeing a dramatic rise in opportunistic crimes. Traffic lights and monitoring systems are out and traffic accidents are increasing dramatically.
The cyberattack that hit the distribution control system has infiltrated into the enterprise systems of the utility and compromised the market operations and financial transactions. The Utility has been suspended from market operations and all financial transactions halted causing suppliers to cease delivery of needed supplies and services.
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