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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Today the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the
<a href="https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CISA%20Resilient%20Power%20Best%20Practices%20for%20Critical%20Facilities%20and%20Sites.pdf" title="https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CISA%20Resilient%20Power%20Best%20Practices%20for%20Critical%20Facilities%20and%20Sites.pdf">
Resilient Power Best Practices for Critical Facilities and Sites</a>. 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.
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">The
<i>Resilient Power Best Practices</i> 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. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">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 <a href="https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/national-preparedness/continuity/toolkit">
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) guidance</a>. The best practices cover: </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="xxcontentpasted0"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Design, process, and telecommunications</span></b></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">, including Planning,
Organization, Equipment, Training, and Exercises (POETE). </span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span class="xxcontentpasted0"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Cybersecurity, physical security, and electromagnetic (EM) security</span></b></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">
to protect the onsite or backup/emergency power system. </span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span class="xxcontentpasted0"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Diesel and natural gas emergency and backup power generation systems</span></b></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">
including both procurement and maintenance considerations. </span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span class="xxcontentpasted0"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Power transfer systems and microgrids</span></b></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"> to help ensure resilient
power and to optimize the use of power generation sources. </span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span class="xxcontentpasted0"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Energy storage</span></b></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"> both to ensure continuous regulated power
prior to backup power generation and to increase the power resilience when using renewables. </span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span class="xxcontentpasted0"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Clean energy solutions</span></b></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"> considering cost and resilience
with renewable solutions (e.g., solar, wind, fuel cells) as well as small modular reactors (SMRs). </span></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">To read more about the RPWG, please visit
<a href="https://www.cisa.gov/resilient-power-working-group" title="https://www.cisa.gov/resilient-power-working-group">
CISA.gov/resilient-power-working-group</a>. If you have questions or want to share your organization’s successes with respect to these best practices, please contact</span></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:Resilient.Power@cisa.dhs.gov">Resilient.Power@cisa.dhs.gov</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Theresa A. Masse</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Cybersecurity State Coordinator/Advisor, Region 10 (Oregon)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Department of Homeland Security<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Phone: (503) 930-5671
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Email:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#777777">
</span><a href="mailto:theresa.masse@cisa.dhs.gov"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0563C1">theresa.masse@cisa.dhs.gov</span></a><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0760C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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