The Gordian Knot Of Grid Resilience – Part 2
According to the Roman historian Quintus Rufus, Midas's Gordian Knot was actually several knots so tightly entangled it was impossible to see how they were fastened. The Gordian Knot of Grid Resilience is similarly constructed. There's the Fuel Security Knot (how is "fuel security" defined?) There are a series of knots related to the definition of and engineering approach to achieving generation system resilience, transmission system resilience, distribution system resilience, and integrated Grid system resilience. There's the Regulatory Knot - a real killer due to electricity market deregulation, entangled federal/state/local regulatory jurisdictions, and the demise of the vertically-integrated electricity provider. There's the Ownership Knot (most Critical Infrastructure in the U.S. is actually owned by the private sector). There's a Tragedy Of The Commons Knot (when everyone is a stakeholder, but no one takes ownership of a problem). I could go on.