[CDP-development] Resilient Power Best Practices for Critical Facilities and Sites

[Masse, Theresa]

FYSA


Today the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the Resilient Power Best Practices for Critical Facilities and Sites<https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CISA%20Resilient%20Power%20Best%20Practices%20for%20Critical%20Facilities%20and%20Sites.pdf>. This document supports emergency and continuity managers with guidelines, analysis, background material, and references to increase the resilience of backup and emergency power systems during all durations of power outages. Improving power resilience can help the nation withstand and recover rapidly from deliberate attacks, accidents, natural disasters, as well as unconventional stresses, shocks, and threats to our economy and democratic system.

The Resilient Power Best Practices focuses on metrics, methods and technologies to improve the resilience of backup and emergency generation sources, fuel quality and availability, energy storage, renewable energy, and includes mitigations against cybersecurity, physical security, and electromagnetic (EM) events. The best practices are applicable to all durations of power outages at critical infrastructure facilities and sites excluding energy related utilities.

This document was developed by the Resilient Power Working Group (RPWG), which CISA established in 2019. The RPWG consists of subject matter experts and practitioners from across federal government, state and local governments, non-profits, and private industry. The working group’s best practices support the comprehensive, risk-informed Business Continuity and Continuity of Operations (COOP) planning activities as defined in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) guidance<https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/national-preparedness/continuity/toolkit>. The best practices cover:

  *   Design, process, and telecommunications, including Planning, Organization, Equipment, Training, and Exercises (POETE).
  *   Cybersecurity, physical security, and electromagnetic (EM) security to protect the onsite or backup/emergency power system.
  *   Diesel and natural gas emergency and backup power generation systems including both procurement and maintenance considerations.
  *   Power transfer systems and microgrids to help ensure resilient power and to optimize the use of power generation sources.
  *   Energy storage both to ensure continuous regulated power prior to backup power generation and to increase the power resilience when using renewables.
  *   Clean energy solutions considering cost and resilience with renewable solutions (e.g., solar, wind, fuel cells) as well as small modular reactors (SMRs).

To read more about the RPWG, please visit CISA.gov/resilient-power-working-group<https://www.cisa.gov/resilient-power-working-group>. If you have questions or want to share your organization’s successes with respect to these best practices, please contact Resilient.Power at cisa.dhs.gov<mailto:Resilient.Power at cisa.dhs.gov>.

Theresa A. Masse
Cybersecurity State Coordinator/Advisor, Region 10 (Oregon)
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Department of Homeland Security
Phone: (503) 930-5671
Email: theresa.masse at cisa.dhs.gov<mailto:theresa.masse at cisa.dhs.gov>

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