PTI Staff Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), 937-667-4142.
To help local officials plan for and respond to incidents and emergencies that result in energy outages, PTI has released Version 2.0 of the Local Government Energy Assurance Guidelines.
Published in collaboration with the Department of Energy Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability (DOE/OE), this publication is available for free at this link.
Read more 12-09-2011 #96
PTI and the Emergency Management Forum hosted this webinar on October 12, 2011.
The topic was planning to respond and recover from energy emergencies resulting from both natural and man-made disasters, as described in Local Government Energy Assurance Guidelines Version 2.0.
Presenters included LEAP Program Director Ronda Mosley and PTI Strategic Advisors Steve Foute and George Burmeister.
A live meeting recording, audio files and slides are now available for download, courtesy of the Emergency Management Forum.
Visit this webinar page
Send a link 10-13-2011 #117
On April 28, 2011 PTI conducted an informational webinar on Version 2.0 of PTI’s LEAP Guidelines. Download the webinar presentation at this link.
The guidelines document - Version 2.0 is also available, free of charge from this link.
Version 2.0 synthesizes material from the previous PTI Guidelines document with a more in-depth examination of the content from DOE/OE’s 10-Step Local Government Energy Assurance Planning Framework, released last year.
The result is a more comprehensive, integrated look at the issues examined by each of the prior documents—in a single source, for ease of reference.
The material covered in Version 2.0 is not meant to replace Version 1 of the Guidelines. The purpose of Version 2.0 is to integrate, constructively reexamine, and further elaborate on earlier guidance provided by DOE/OE and PTI.
If you have questions on the webinar or the release of the guidelines, please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Send a link 05-02-2011 #99
DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) has developed the Ten-Step Energy Assurance Planning Framework as a supplement to PTI’s Local Government Energy Assurance Guidelines.
The Framework is not intended to take the place of the PTI Guidelines; however, it should be used as a resource during your energy assurance planning process and help you begin to ask questions and form the partnerships necessary in developing an effective plan.
Read more 08-18-2010 #52
The State Energy Assurance Guidelines were developed by the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) with the assistance of National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) under the direction of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE).
Read more 05-27-2010 #34
A softcover, full-color edition of the PTI publication Local Government Energy Assurance Guidelines is now available for $33.49 on Amazon.com at this link. The publication helps city and county officials to address energy assurance and security concerns for mission-critical government facilities.
"Protecting and enhancing the resiliency of the energy sector from natural and human-caused disasters requires local governments to be vigilant and aware of the interdependencies of the system," said PTI executive director Alan Shark. "This guide provides a valuable resource for local governments as they examine and enhance their energy assurance efforts."
Local Government Energy Assurance Guidelines underscores the importance of preparing an energy assurance plan and offers a model tool to help officials assess their readiness in case of an energy emergency in their community by:
- Identifying national and local government experts who can help with energy assurance planning needs;
- Building organizational relationships and responsibilities within local government, the private sector and the region;
- Discovering actions that can ease the impacts of short-term energy disruptions;
- Defining long-term strategies and options for dealing with sustained disruptions or outages;
- Providing a tool that can be used to prepare an energy assurance plan;
- Improving all-hazards emergency preparedness through regional collaboration; and
- Learning about innovative and traditional financing mechanisms for energy assurance needs.
"Local governments are on the front lines of virtually all energy emergencies, and local governments are going to be faced with an ever increasing number of energy-related emergencies in the coming years," said Alice Lippert of the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). "The resources and energy assurance assessment tool provided in this document will help local officials in preparing for energy-related disruptions to their facilities and systems."
The DOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) funded PTI’s production of this publication. The OE is the primary DOE office responsible for energy emergency planning and response in the United States. Its mission is to lead national efforts to modernize the electric grid, enhance security and reliability of the energy infrastructure and facilitate recovery from disruptions to the energy supply.
Use this link to order the hard-copy version from Amazon.
Use this link to download the 4.3 MB PDF from PTI at no charge.
Use this link to download a video overview of PTI’s research initiative on energy assurance for local governments, presented by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Assistant Executive Director for Research and Government Services.
Send a link 04-12-2010 #7
