Resilient Design

Designing Energy Facilities Around the Hazards They Must Face Energy infrastructure operates in environments exposed to high winds, heavy rain, flooding, snow, atmospheric ice, temperature extremes, lightning, wildfire, corrosion, and other hazards. The combination and severity of those threats vary by location, and trends are not identical across every type of weather event. What remains constant is the importance of energy-system reliability. Generation, transmission, distribution, pipeline, storage, and control facilities support services communities and industries rely on every day. When a facility is damaged or inaccessible, the consequences can extend beyond the building to equipment, operations, customers, and interconnected systems. [...]