Disaster Preparedness Offers Big Payoffs for Utilities

Achieving the right balance between resilience and the cost of electricity poses a challenge. Technical solutions are available to mitigate the risks posed by most hazards, but they affect the prices customers pay for power and may be difficult to...

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Main Authors:	Oguah, Samuel, Khosla, Sunil
Format:	Brief
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	NATURAL DISASTER DISASTER PREPAREDNESS MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT UTILITIES POWER SYSTEMS RESILIENCE HAZARD RISK INFRASTRUCTURE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/426771508915573282/Disaster-preparedness-offers-big-payoffs-for-utilities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28621

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spelling	okr-10986-286212021-05-25T10:54:36Z Disaster Preparedness Offers Big Payoffs for Utilities Oguah, Samuel Khosla, Sunil NATURAL DISASTER DISASTER PREPAREDNESS MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT UTILITIES POWER SYSTEMS RESILIENCE HAZARD RISK INFRASTRUCTURE Achieving the right balance between resilience and the cost of electricity poses a challenge. Technical solutions are available to mitigate the risks posed by most hazards, but they affect the prices customers pay for power and may be difficult to justify to regulators. Because power system assets are long-lived, they cannot be easily replaced to take advantage of advances in technology. This is where good planning comes in: depreciated, obsolete, or damaged equipment can be replaced with hazardhardy components. Operators must plan to “build back better.” 2017-11-01T21:17:00Z 2017-11-01T21:17:00Z 2017-10-24 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/426771508915573282/Disaster-preparedness-offers-big-payoffs-for-utilities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28621 English en_US Live Wire;2017/84 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief
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description	Achieving the right balance between resilience and the cost of electricity poses a challenge. Technical solutions are available to mitigate the risks posed by most hazards, but they affect the prices customers pay for power and may be difficult to justify to regulators. Because power system assets are long-lived, they cannot be easily replaced to take advantage of advances in technology. This is where good planning comes in: depreciated, obsolete, or damaged equipment can be replaced with hazardhardy components. Operators must plan to “build back better.”
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Disaster Preparedness Offers Big Payoffs for Utilities

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