Grid Resilience Costing

Grid Resilience Costing

The Mistake of Hardening Everything at Once (And the Forge That Prioritizes)

After the 2021 Texas freeze, one utility spent $400 million on wide-area insulation. Two years later, a single substation failure still knocked out po...

Grid Resilience Costing

What to Fix First When Your Costing Model Ignores the Second Event

Grid resilience costion is hard enough with one storm. But what happens when two event hit in the same week — or even the same day? Most model assume ...

Grid Resilience Costing

When Your Grid Resilience Budget Fails the First Storm: 3 Costing Traps

Here is a scene I have seen three times in two years. A utility resilience manager walks into a briefing room—tired, maybe still in Carhartts from the...