We Take Electric Power for Granted. Threats to Our Electric Grid are Real. Here's How to Prepare. (See back cover below for Endorsements.) Powering Through is an action guide and contains, for the first time, a comparison of critical infrastructures that can suffer long duration outages caused by five high impact threats: high altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP); solar geomagnetic storms; cyber-attacks; physical attacks; and Radio Frequency(RF) weapons. We are accustomed to short duration power failures. However, disruptions of weeks, months, or over a year are more and more possible, yet this risk is largely unrecognized. The book examines the interdependent, and critical, infrastructures that would be threatened by a sustained electric grid failure, such as our water and wastewater systems, communications, transportation, emergency and healthcare services, government and military defense, to name only a few. Importantly, the book concentrates on consequence management, starting at the individual, household, and community levels of preparedness. This book heralds a call to action to begin preparing NOW. There are five additional authors: William Kaewert, David Hunt, John Contestabile, John Rosica, Mark Walker. Proceeds from the book are being used by the InfraGard EMP SIG™ for further research.

Powering Through "From Fragile Infrastructures To Community Resilience

Reference

HUNT, David

Lasky, Mary

Harris, William (Bill)

Volandt, Stephen

Baker, George

Bieber, Steve

Koza, Frank

Lokmer, Stephanie

Thomas, Janet

Rosa, Fred

Survival & Emergency Preparedness

InfraGard National Disaster Resilience Council

We can outsmart disaster through intelligent planning. 
There is more to critical infrastructure than roads and dams—our everyday life relies on invisible infrastructure, from wastewater management to communications technology. Whether we’re charging our phones or seeking emergency healthcare, we trust that our electrical grid will be reliable. So what happens to that infrastructure when disaster hits? 
Will the kitchen tap bring us water after a freak weather event? At the supermarket, will we find what we need during a pandemic? Or might water systems and supply chains turn out to be underprepared for surviving disruption? 
We don’t need to wait for a cyberattack, hurricane, or severe winter storm to find us. Resilience is a plan, not an afterthought, when the grid is down. When emergency alerts blare and the lights go out, our nation’s critical infrastructure can be prepared. 
After reading this book, you will know: How our power grid arrived at a state of vulnerability What obstacles we face to preventing mass, long term power failure How industry professionals can push for a more resilient critical infrastructure\nWith a focus on our nation’s electric grid, Powering Through offers a comprehensive look at multiple threats, reaching across infrastructure sectors to address interdependencies. It serves as an actionable consequence management handbook for any professional seeking a route to greater resilience. Each chapter concludes with a chart that helps the reader assess current approaches and orient an action plan towards greater resilience. 
Chapters concentrate on key infrastructure areas: Electric Power Communications Water & Wastewater Food & Agriculture Transportation Healthcare & Public Health Emergency Management Chemical Information & Operations Technology\nA key addition to any library of natural disaster and survival books, Powering Through focuses on disaster preparation and prevention. This updated edition builds on its 2016 predecessor through three key questions: What happens to each critical infrastructure sector in the event of electric power failure? How can each sector help restore electric power in a grid down scenario? What can each sector change now to become more resilient?\n“Powering Through: Building Critical Infrastructure Resilience provides the most comprehensive review of threats, impacts, consequences, and preventative measures any organization can take to be more resilient to extended power outages that we have seen in our 16 years in the disaster management and business continuity field.” - Tom Moran, Executive Director of the All Hazards Consortium\nAdditional contributors to the 2020 edition: 
Frederick Ferrer 
Edward Goldberg 
Gregory Hertz 
James LeBlanc 
Stephanie Lokmer 
Chuck Nettleship 
Fred Rosa 
Janet Thomas 
Apolonio Garcia 
Daniel Honore 
John Reasbeck 
Cheryl Santor 
Anthony Adebonojo 
Nathan Edwards 
Eleanora Ann Gianni 
John Juhasz 
Mitchell Kerman 
Roger Rosewall 
Henry Cooper

Powering Through: Building Critical Infrastructure Resilience

Harris, William

Christensen, David

Churchill, Bruce

Volandt, Steve

Winks, David

Chill, Stephen

Krieg, Richard

Bowker

About this Workshop and Tabletop Exercise Package: This InfraGard National Electromagnetic Pulse Special Interest Group (EMP SIG) exercise package facilitates discussions, planning and preparation for catastrophic events involving the electrical grid and the cascading impacts to other critical infrastructure and the community. It includes three separate scenarios to examine how different causes of grid failure can affect local communities and warrant preparedness efforts. For a facilitator’s guide contact the EMP SIG at: igempsig@infragardmembers.org White House National Science & Technology Council Recommendations from the Second Goal of the 2015 National Space Weather Strategy: • “Complete an all-hazards power outage response and recovery plan: -- for extreme space weather event and the long-term loss of electric power and cascading effects on other critical infrastructure sectors; • Other low-frequency, high-impact events are also capable of causing long-term power outages on a regional or national scale. • The plan must include the Whole Community and enable the prioritization of core capabilities.” • “Develop and conduct exercises to improve and test Federal, State, regional, local, and industry-related space weather response and recovery plans: Exercising plans and capturing lessons learned enables ongoing improvement in event response and recovery capabilities.” For more information about White House NSTC recommendations see: http://www.dhs.gov/national-space-weather-strategy About the InfraGard National EMP SIG: The EMP SIG was formed in July 2011 for the purpose of sharing information about catastrophic threats to our nation’s critical infrastructure and encouraging local communities to become more resilient. Threats include extreme space weather, manmade electromagnetic pulse (EMP), cyber-attacks, coordinated physical attacks, and pandemics. On October 3-6, 2011, the EMP SIG instigated and cohosted workshops and exercises at the National Defense University at Ft. McNair in Washington, DC and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD examining scenarios of national level power grid failures due to extreme space weather. In December 2014, the EMP SIG led a workshop and tabletop exercise at the National Guard Association of the US to look at grid collapse scenarios due either to space weather, EMP or cyber attacks from which this package was developed.

Triple Threat Power Grid Exercise: High Impact Threats Workshop and Tabletop Exercises Examining Extreme Space Weather, EMP and Cyber Attacks

Engineering & Transportation

Manto, Charles

Baker III, Dr. George

Donat MD, Terry

Kaewert, William

Leighton, Cedrick

Reynolds, Dana C.

Rutledge, Robert

Engineering

Westphalia Press

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