Energy Risk & Critical Infrastructure Workshop

National Conference of State Legislatures

May 25, 2016

Electric Power Industry’s Approach

to Grid Security & Resiliency

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We Are a Vital Part

Of America’s Economy

Threat Landscape

Our Approach to Grid Security

Standards

Physical

Cyber

Industry-Government Partnership

Electricity Subsector Coordinating

Council (ESCC)

Electricity Information Sharing & Analysis Center

(E-ISAC)

Partnerships with federal, state, &

local governments

Incident Response

Grid Resiliency

Mutual Assistance

Spare Equipment Programs

Addressing Threats to the Energy Grid

The Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council

focuses on improving the security and resiliency of

the power grid by:

Planning and exercising coordinated responses to attacks or major

disruptions to the grid

Making sure information about threats is communicated quickly

among government and industry

Deploying government technologies on

electric power company systems that

improve situational awareness of

threats to the grid

Cross-sector coordination with other

critical infrastructure sectors

ESCC Roster

Leadership Asset Owners

• Tom Fanning, Southern Company• Kevin Wailes, Lincoln Electric System• Duane Highley, Arkansas Electric Cooperative

• Nick Akins, American Electric Power• Jim Torgerson, Avangrid• Scott Miller, City Utilities of Springfield• John McAvoy, Consolidated Edison• Tom Farrell, Dominion• Lynn Good, Duke Energy• Ted Craver, Edison International• Gianna Manes, ENMAX Corp.• Chris Crane, Exelon Corp.• Greg Ford, Georgia System Operations Corp.• David Saggau, Great River Energy• Connie Lau, Hawaiian Electric Industries• Bill Fehrman, MidAmerican Energy• John Bilda, Norwich Public Utilities• Jack Reasor, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative• Tony Earley, PG&E Corp.• Bill Spence, PPL Corp.• Lonnie Carter, Santee Cooper• Ben Fowke, Xcel Energy

Steering Committee

• Sue Kelly, American Public Power Association• Sergio Marchi, Canadian Electricity Association• Tom Kuhn, Edison Electric Institute• John Shelk, Electric Power Supply Association• Mike Wallace, National Infrastructure Advisory

Council• Jeffrey Connor, National Rural Electric

Cooperative Association• Gerry Cauley, North American Electric

Reliability Corporation• Marv Fertel, Nuclear Energy Institute• Andy Ott, PJM (representing the ISO/RTO

Council)

Electric Power Sector Owners & Operators (81) AES Alabama Power Alliant Energy American Electric Power Ameren Corp. Arizona Public Service Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. AVANGRID Avista Corp. Basin Electric Power Corp. Berkshire Hathaway Energy Bonneville Power Administration CA Independent System Operator CenterPoint Energy City Utilities of Springfield Missouri Colorado Springs Utilities ComEd Consolidated Edison Consumers Energy (MI) Dominion

DTE Energy Duke Energy Edison International ELCON Energy Future Holdings Energy Reliability Council of Texas Enmax Entergy Corp. Eversource Energy Exelon Corp. FirstEnergy Corp. Florida Power & Light Garland Power & Light Georgia Power Georgia Transmission Corp. Great River Energy Hawaiian Electric Company Hydro One IESO InfraREIT

ITC Transmission Co. Kansas City Power & Light LG&E & KU Lincoln Electric Power System MidAmerican Energy MISO NextEra Energy NiSource Norwich Public Utilities NY Independent System Operator NY Power Authority NV Energy Oklahoma Gas & Electric Old Dominion Electric Cooperative Oncor Pacific Gas & Electric Pacificorp Pepco PJM Interconnection PNGC Power

PPL Electric Utilities Public Service Electric & Gas Co. PECO Energy Company PNM Resources Sacramento Municipal Utility District Salt River Project Santee Cooper Sempra Energy Snohomish County Public Utility Southern California Edison Southern Company Tacoma Power TECO Energy Tullahoma Utilities Board TVA TXU Energy United Technologies Corp. Vectren WEC Energy Group Westar Energy Xcel Energy

Industry Organizations Reliability Organizations The Government

Senior Executive Working Group Engagement

8By Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New

York - Flickr: IMG_1590, CC BY 2.0,

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17207653

October 2011 – “Snowmeggedon” – 3 million out, 10 days

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June 2012 – Derecho – 4.7 million out, 7-10 days

10NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon with data courtesy of the NASA/NOAA GOES Project Science team.

October 2012 – Superstorm Sandy – 8.2 million out , 14 days+

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A New Need: Respond and Coordinate on a

National Level

January 2013, the EEI Board meets and directs EEI to

develop a new national-level mutual assistance

framework

September 2013, our “National Response Event” (NRE)

Framework Approved by EEI Board

NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon with data courtesy of the NASA/NOAA GOES Project Science team.

Tradition: A Regional Approach to

Mutual Assistance

A NRE is an event that:

- Is expected to or has impacted two or more RMAGs; or

- The resource requirements are greater than what the

impacted RMAGs can provide; or

- Requires response from more than two RMAGs; or

- There are multiple events that create a resource constraint or

competition between RMAGs.

When an NRE is activated, all available EEI member

emergency restoration resources (including

contractors) will be pooled and allocated to

participating utilities in a safe, efficient, and equitable

manner.

National Response Event Overview

Industry-Federal Government

Crisis Management Coordination

Spare Equipment

•STEP

•SpareConnect

•Grid Assurance (in development)

Transportation•ESCC cross-sector efforts

•TTWG

Information Sharing/Cyber

•E-ISAC

•ESCC Cyber MA (pending)

Public Affairs

•EEI

•APPA

•NRECA

•Companies

Mutual Assistance

•EEI NRE

•APPA Network

•NRECA efforts

ESCC

CEOsGov’t Support

Coordination of

Effort/Message

Sr. Federal Gov’t Officials

ESF-12 DOE/ERT

Calls

Situational Awareness / Support Requests

Situational

Awareness

The Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council (ESCC) serves as

the principal liaison between the federal government and all segments

of the electric power industry, with the mission of coordinating efforts on

national-level threats to critical infrastructure.

The ESCC is informed by industry operational, public affairs and

information sharing entities and programs.

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Resources

Edison Electric Institute:

www.eei.org

Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council:

www.electricititysubsector.org

Richard Ward

Senior Manager, National Security Policy

Edison Electric Institute

rward@eei.org

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is the association that represents the

U.S. investor-owned electric industry. Our members provide electricity for

220 million Americans, operate in all 50 states and the District of Columbia,

and directly employ more than 500,000 workers. Reliable, affordable, and

sustainable electricity powers the economy and enhances the lives of all

Americans.

The EEI membership also includes dozens of international electric company

Affiliates, and hundreds of Associate organizations.

Since 1933, EEI has provided public policy leadership, strategic business

intelligence, and essential conferences and forums for the energy industry.

For more information, visit our Web site at www.eei.org.