RR Credit: Power Surety and Resilience

(1-5 points)

Applicable to: Cities & Utilities, Campuses, Transit

INTENT

To ensure power for critical loads and essential services during emergencies and to support community recovery after catastrophic events and power grid outages.

REQUIREMENTS

Cities and Utilities

Identify critical facilities, customers, and feeders that require power supply during widespread outages or disasters (1 point).

Take at least one of the following sequential steps (1–4 points):

• Step 1. Identify interruption in critical facilities, loads, or feeders through advanced meters or an outage management system integrated through GIS and SCADA (1 point).
• Step 2. Achieve Step 1 and provide priority restoration for identified critical loads in blackouts or brownouts (1 point).
• Step 3. Achieve Step 2 and provide backup power for critical and essential loads and facilities (1 point).
• Step 4. Achieve Step 3 and provide power supply through a renewable energy system (e.g., solar, wind) that does not depend on external fuel (e.g., gas, diesel) to meet essential services.

Campuses and Transit

Identify the project’s critical loads and essential services (listed in the PEER Reference Guide) that require backup power during widespread outages or disasters and determine their minimum daily runtime requirements (1 point).

Take at least one of the following sequential steps (1–4 points):

• Step 1. Equip all project loads with short-term backup power options to enable safe shutdown of the load, process, or other facility (1 point). 
• Step 2. Achieve Step 1 and demonstrate that the project can supply power to all critical loads for the minimum daily runtime or longer (1 point).
• Step 3. Achieve Step 2 and demonstrate that the project has, within the project boundary and/or in the project neighborhood, a long-term power source that can support essential services for the minimum daily runtime for one week or longer (1 point).
• Step 4. Achieve Step 3 and have a renewable power generation system (e.g., solar, wind) that does not depend on external fuel (e.g., gas, diesel) to meet essential services (1 point).

The project must have in place a permanent fuel storage facility within the project boundary to support the backup power system or local generation.

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