Quick Reads
Electricity Sector Cybersecurity and Digitalization Handbook
This Electricity Sector Cybersecurity and Digitalization Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and ...
Distributed Energy Planning for Climate Resilience
This fact sheet compiles nest practices, lessons learned, and solutions for implementing distributed energy for resilience, based on analytical and technical ...
Valuing Resilience in Electricity Systems
Recent natural disasters resulting in long-duration power outages have highlighted the United States’ increasing dependence on electricity, as well as the ...
Valuing the Resilience Provided by Solar and Battery Energy Storage Systems
Placing a value on the benefits provided by solar with storage during grid outages can significantly impact project economics and system design. This paper ...
Cross-Border Power Trade to Support Resilience
Cross-border power trade can support public interest goals such as better grid resilience, increased energy access, economic development, and other power ...
Power Sector Resilience: Flexible Adaptation Pathways
Power sector planners routinely make investments in major assets (e.g., power plants, substations) with expected operational lives lasting 30 years or more. ...
Institutional Solutions to Enhance Power Sector Resilience
How will power system operators, personnel, and end users react during a major disruption? Will system operations adapt to changing conditions and recover ...
Valuing Adaptation and Resilience Interventions in the Power Sector
By 2040, the global power sector will require an estimated $30 trillion in investment to keep pace with current trends and achieve the Sustainable Development ...
Finance for Power Sector Resilience
Many countries and cities are considering and planning for power sector resilience through undertaking vulnerability assessments and developing resilience ...
Renewable Energy to Support Energy Security
Renewable energy plays an important role in supporting energy security through contributing to the protection and continued provision of energy services when a ...
Power Sector Resilience: Integrated Resource and Resilience Planning
Various threats—natural, technological, and human-caused—can compromise the safety, reliability, and affordability of power delivery. Among these threats is ...
Кибербезопасность и распределенные энергетические ресурсы (Russian Version)
Russian translation of the Cybersecurity and Distributed Energy Resources Quick Read.
Power Sector Cybersecurity Building Blocks
The Power Sector Cybersecurity Building Blocks are designed to help a variety of stakeholders improve security for the electrical grid. This effort grows out ...
Cybersecurity and Distributed Energy Resources
This fact sheet addresses cybersecurity for distributed energy resources (DERs) and identifies best practices in cybersecurity governance, technical management ...
Mini-Grids and Climate Resilience
Reliable and affordable energy can drive economic growth, development, and improved health and security. Yet communities in remote locations often lack access ...
Power Sector Resilience Technical Solutions
Clean energy technical solutions can enhance resilience across the grid system to help provide more reliable and resilient power to end users. Several ...
Understanding Power System Threats and Impacts
Understanding potential threats to a power system is an essential first step in supporting power sector resilience. It is important to assess both current and ...
ການວາງແຜນສົ່ງເສີມການປັບຄືນສະພາບເອົາໃຫ້ອອກຂະແໜງພະລັງງານ ການຮັບປະກັນໄຟຟ້າໃຫ້ມີຄວາມສະຖຽນ, ໝັ້ນຄົງ, ປອດໄພ ແລະ ໃນລາຄາທີ່ສາມາດຊື້ໄດ້ (Lao translation)
Power Sector Resilience Planning: To Ensure Reliable, Secure, Safe, and Affordable Electricity Supplies (Lao translation)
PLANIFICACIÓN DE UN SECTOR ENERGÉTICO RESILIENTE: Cómo asegurar electricidad confiable, segura y asequible (Spanish Translation)
Planning a Resilient Power Sector: Ensuring Reliable, Secure, Safe, and Affordable Electricity (Spanish translation)
Webinar Slides: Building Blocks to Support Cybersecurity in the Power Sector
NREL and USAID present a webinar on a power sector cybersecurity framework and building blocks focused on technical, policy, planning, regulatory, and other ...
Planning a Resilient Power Sector
The provision of reliable, secure, and affordable electricity is essential to power economic growth and development. The power system is at risk from an array ...
Increasing the Security and Resilience of the Electric Power System
This fact sheet describes ongoing work on developing a security and resilience methodology and modeling tool set that incorporates value metrics and use-case ...
Webinar Slides: Cybersecurity and Distributed Energy Resources
Cybersecurity is a critical aspect of power sector resilience. As an activity of the Resilient Energy Platform, this webinar will address cybersecurity for ...
Les Modules de Base de la Cybersécurité dans le Secteur Énergétique (French Translation)
Les modules de base de la cybersécurité dans le secteur de l'énergie, développés dans le cadre du partenariat entre l'Agence des États-Unis pour le ...
Webinar Slides: Cybersecurity Awareness Training - A Building Block for Power Sector Cybersecurity
What is one of the most effective ways for utilities to thwart cyberattacks? Research has shown a significant number (19%–36%) of data breaches can be traced ...
Componentes Básicos de Ciberseguridad del Sector Eléctrico (Spanish Translation)
Los componentes básicos de ciberseguridad del sector eléctrico, desarrollados a través de la Asociación de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo ...
СТРУКТУРНЫЕ ЭЛЕМЕНТЫ КИБЕРБЕЗОПАСНОСТИ В ЭНЕРГЕТИЧЕСКОМ СЕКТОРЕ (Russian Translation)
Структурные блоки кибербезопасности, разработанные в рамках Партнерства между Агентством международного развития США (USAID) и Национальной лабораторией по ...
The Resilient Energy Platform
Developed through the USAID-NREL Partnership, the Resilient Energy Platform is a website that provides expertly curated resources, training materials, data, ...
Webinar Slides: Cybersecurity Technical Controls for Utility OT and SCADA
Developing a robust cybersecurity defense program is critical to enhancing grid security and power sector resilience. This webinar, part of the Power Sector ...
Battery Storage for Resilience
As the capital costs of battery storage systems are decreasing, new opportunities to cost-effectively deploy the technology, often paired with renewable energy ...
Power Sector Cybersecurity Building Blocks
The Power Sector Cybersecurity Building Blocks, developed through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-National Renewable Energy Laboratory ...
Webinar Slides: Power Sector Cybersecurity Standards, Regulations, and Laws: Issues of Compliance
Developing a robust cybersecurity defense program is critical to enhancing grid security and power sector resilience. This webinar, part of the Power Sector ...
Powering PostCOVID-19 Resilient Recovery with Green Stimulus
What economic recovery solutions following the COVID-19 pandemic can support power sector resilience, support future growth, decarbonize electricity ...
