Power Resilience Tools and Resources
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Build Capability to Respond to Power Outages
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Water Sector Guide to Telecommunications During Power Outages: This guide provides information to help water and wastewater utilities diversify their telecommunications plans and equipment to help ensure they can continue to communicate with employees, response partners, and customers during a prolonged power outage.
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Generator Preparedness for Water Utilities: This brochure provides tools and prompts water and wastewater utilities to better prepare for emergency generator needs, provides tips on running and maintaining generators, and includes an easy-to-copy form to determine and document backup power needs.
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ReOPT Tool: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Evaluate the economic viability of distributed PV, wind, battery storage, combined heat and power (CHP), and thermal energy storage; identify system sizes and dispatch strategies to minimize energy costs; estimate how long a system can sustain critical load during a grid outage.
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Drinking Water System Energy Resilience Value Estimator Tool: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), supports water system owners and operators in determining the costs of water outages to commercial and industrial customers that are caused by electric system outages.
Respond to Power Outages
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Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) Standard Operating Procedure: This template can be used by water and wastewater utilities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from power shutoffs to reduce fire risks. Although there are some actions that are unique to a utility’s specific circumstances, most of the information is relevant to any power outages.
- Power Outage Incident Action Checklist: This checklist is a “rip & run” style document with examples of activities that water and wastewater utilities can take to prepare for, respond to, and recover from power outages.
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Energy Efficiency in Water and Wastewater Facilities. This guide describes how water and wastewater facilities can lead by example and achieve multiple benefits by improving the energy efficiency of their new, existing, and renovated buildings and their day-to-day operations.
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Energy Management Guidebook for Wastewater and Water Utilities (2008) (pdf) This Energy Management Guidebook for Wastewater and Water Utilities that provides a systematic approach to reducing energy consumption and energy cost.