Utilities across the country face increasing infrastructure repair and replacement costs driven by system damages caused by natural disasters. INL is advancing a comprehensive methodology for infrastructure risk analysis, emphasizing the probability of natural hazards’ impacts on distribution, transmission, and generation system components. This initiative addresses critical infrastructure systems, their dependencies, interconnections, and the implications to system behavior and performance as well as the impacts on critical services and systems from these potential failures. INL’s approach simplifies and standardizes the evaluation of natural hazard risks, asset vulnerabilities, and the relative magnitude of financial loss or damage.
This workshop offers a unique opportunity to engage with INL experts and other stakeholders to learn about risk and vulnerability assessments tailored to the electric utility subsector, and to share best practices for evaluating natural hazard risks to critical grid assets.
Why Attend?
This workshop is designed for electric sector operators, regulators, policymakers, and stakeholders, offering actionable guidance, exposure to innovative tools, and insights into resilience strategies. Key benefits include:
Gaining insights into National & Homeland Security best practices in assessing risks and INL’s catastrophe modeling methodologies used by insurers and other stakeholders.
Engaging in discussions about proactively addressing regional and local challenges that are associated with more frequent and extreme weather events.
Exploring tools and methods to enhance natural hazard risk management.
Observing a live demonstration of the ACCLIMATE tool to assess risks, understand vulnerabilities, and implement effective resilience strategies with financial foresight.
Workshop Objectives
By the end of the workshop, attendees will:
Understand how they may prioritize resilience in the electric power sector through targeted risk analysis and innovative technologies.
Learn about actionable strategies, tools, and technical assistance available to plan and implement resilience measures.
Leverage financial insights to help make more informed decisions about infrastructure protection and recovery efforts.
Location & Details
Date: May 13, 2025
Location: TSGT Headquarters
1100 W 116th Ave
Westminster, Colorado
This workshop is an invaluable opportunity to contribute to and benefit from the development of cutting-edge tools and strategies for improving the electric subsector’s resilience against natural hazards. Participants will leave with enhanced knowledge for prioritizing infrastructure resilience investments and measures in the face of intensifying natural and cyber threats.
Please let us know if you will be able to attend. We look forward to your positive response and hope to see you in Westminster.
Click here to RSVP for the workshop by Friday, April 25, 2025.
If you experience issues with the RSVP form, please get in touch with Jennifer Jenkins at jjenkins@managroupconsulting.com.
Data Request
As part of this workshop we plan to demonstrate the ACCLIMATE tool using electric power asset data. To make the demonstration more relevant to you and your organization, we can use your system data, assessing aspects of your infrastructure under different chronic, extreme weather events. To share transmission system and/or distribution system data for modeling and analysis prior to the workshop, please send an e-mail to Heather.Ackenhusen@inl.gov and we will discuss data protections, anonymization, along with the process and logistics.