Challenges Surrounding Electric Power Resiliency
Costs v. Benefits
Conducting a cost-benefit analysis of resiliency is particularly challenging because of high uncertainty on the benefit side.
Cybersecurity, Reliability & CIP
National Consumer Protection Week
UUAS Partners with FTC
It is not too late to join the campaign. The FTC welcomes new partners and encourages everyone to join in its consumer education initiative.
Shutting Down Scams 2017
Consumers Protected
The UUAS website had nearly three thousand visitors from November 13 through 17 during National Scam Awareness Week.
Storms, Rates, Insurance
Entire Economy Pays Price
This past year three hurricanes affected an area which encompassed about eight percent of the U.S. population. According to an article by Joel Achenbach in The Washington Post, dated November 19, 2017, “Disaster claims soar in year of calamities: Federal resources stretched as applications for aid rise tenfold,” these three storms contributed to a year of “record setting disasters.”
4.7 million Americans registered for FEMA aid compared to four hundred eighty thousand in 2016, and an average of a hundred and eighty thousand for the previous three years.
Conversation Cannot Be Markets vs. Non-Markets
Pendulum Swings Again
While open markets were the objective of the 1990s, the pendulum is swinging again.
Videos: Three Young NYPA Leaders at iSOC Opening
Ricardo da Silva, Emilie Bolduc and Kenneth Carnes speak about the technology and applications of the state-of-the-art NYPA Integrated Smart Operations Center at the iSOC opening on December 11 in White Plains.
Welcome to Our New Integrated Smart Operations Center
What makes iSOC extraordinary?
An interview with Gil Quiniones, CEO, New York Power Authority.
Taking Reliability and Resilience to Next Level
True Power Security through CRISP
We need Comprehensive Resource and Increased Security Planning (CRISP).
Grid Impact from High-Altitude Nuclear Attack
A single piece of a very complex puzzle
This is the second study of the detonation of a high-altitude nuclear weapon that generates an EMP.
Regulators Must Ensure Integrity of Global Supply Chains
Reducing Threats to the Utility Industry
Public utility commissions have an opportunity and obligation to actively discuss and promote approaches to limit evolving threats.