The Foundation for Resilient Societies is dedicated to cost-effective protection of technologically-advanced societies from infrequently occurring natural and manmade disasters.
On May 14, 2013 the Foundation for Resilient Societies filed a Comment on FERC Docket RM12-22-000 on Equipment Monitoring and Diagnostics. Our comment presents the factual record on NERC actions to eliminate a planned reliability standard on equipment monitoring and diagnostic devices. Planning for this commonsense standard has been in process at NERC since 2009. Notably, equipment monitoring and diagnostic devices, as contemplated in the standard, could be used to require monitoring of Geomagnetically Induced Current (GIC) by electric utilities and also could help predict extra high voltage transformer failures in the aftermath of a solar storm. Now NERC management proposes to eliminate this standard, but has not provided technical justification for doing so. You can download our comment by clicking on its hyperlink.
On May 1, 2013 the Foundation for Resilient Societies filed a Comment on FERC Docket RM12-22-000 on Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) Operating Procedures and Hardware GMD Protection. The comment analyzes GMD impact reports from Maine and GIC readings from the TVA's Paradise, Tennessee generation facility. You can download the comment by clicking on its hyperlink; the Paradise GIC Readings are also available for download.
On April 1, 2013 the Foundation for Resilient Societies filed a Comment on FERC Docket RM12-22-000 on a Case Study of ISO-New England GMD Operating Procedures. You can download the comment by clicking on its hyperlink.
The Foundation for Resilient Societies currently has a Petition for Rulemaking pending at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that can be downloaded at PRM-50-96.
The Foundation for Resilient Societies frequently comments of the rulemaking dockets of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Our filings can be accessed at the Docket Filings page.
