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Comments on the Con Ed Storm Hardening and Resilience Report

These comments recommend that the NYPSC order the continuation of the Storm Hardening and Resiliency Collaborative and (1) have Working Group II consider broadly how alternative business models for distributed generation ownership and adjustment to existing tariff provisions could provide system-wide resilience benefits; (2) have Working Group IV develop explicit…
Jonathan Schrag, Jason Schwartz, Denise Grab, Matthew Weprin and Hillary Coleman
January 10, 2014
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Envisioning Resilient Electrical Infrastructure: A Policy Framework for Incorporating Future Climate Change into Electricity Sector Planning

Climate change needs to be incorporated in future designs of the electricity sector. This paper argues for a policy framework in which utilities take the lead by performing an electrical climate change impact assessment that evaluates to what extent utilities’ electrical assets are vulnerable to future climate change. Based on…
Sam Nierop
December 1, 2013