New Study Helps Map Out Road Ahead for U.S. Electricity System
January 10, 2017 | Department of Energy, Office of ScienceEstimated reading time: 5 minutes
Ensure Reliability, Security, and Resilience. Traditional electricity system operations are evolving that can enable a more dynamic and integrated grid, creating both enormous opportunities and the potential for new risks and vulnerabilities. The emerging threat environment, particularly with respect to cybersecurity and increases in the severity of extreme weather events, poses challenges for the reliability, security, and resilience of the electricity sector, as well as to its traditional governance and regulatory regimes. Key steps needed to minimize these risks include:
- Materially expanding existing Federal programs to demonstrate the integration and optimization of distribution-system technologies.
- Providing incentives for energy storage.
- Enhancing coordination between energy-sector information-sharing and analysis centers and the intelligence communities to synthesize threat analysis and disseminate it to industry in a timely and useful manner.
- Supporting grants for small utilities facing cyber, physical, and climate threats.
- Accounting for emerging threats during reliability planning.
- Providing funding assistance to enhance analytical capabilities in state public utility commissions.
Invest in a Modern Workforce. A skilled workforce that can build, operate, and manage this modernized grid infrastructure is essential for the 21st century electricity system. Building a dynamic electricity workforce will require support from the Federal Government, including by:
- Strengthening Federal and regional efforts focused on electricity workforce development and transition assistance.
- Supporting cyber-physical systems (CPS) curriculum, training, and education for grid modernization and cybersecurity.
- Enhancing and aligning skills-based training and electricity-sector workforce development.
Enhance Electricity Integration in North America. Leaders in the United States, Canada, and Mexico have publicly and repeatedly affirmed support for increasing energy integration, and there is a general understanding across the continent that the benefits of cross-border electricity trade can be improved with deeper system integration. A subset of the policies needed to accomplish this goal include:
- Advancing North American grid security through sharing of best practices and exploration of potential future cooperation on grid security issues.
- Facilitating the permitting of cross-border transmission-facilities by expanding the Regulatory and Permitting Information Desktop (RAPID) Toolkit.
- Increasing North American clean-energy and technical coordination and enhancing cooperation on energy information exchange across North America.
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