Curry Mayer, director of Bellevue, Wash., Emergency Management, just shared a copy of a study that was done, which she participated in. See Powering Through, From Fragile Infrastructures to Community Resilience.
As noted earlier in this blog, an Interdependencies Workshop/Exercise is being conducted in western Washington to address the issues brought on by a CME incident. That event will be held in May 2019.
Then I got a marketing email from CellCube a company that is offering the ability to have "islands of energy" when you lose your electrical power and are trying to function "off the grid." Generators are one source, but we do need technology that gives us some micro-grid capability when we lose power, the generators don't start, or run out of fuel.
I can't say these guys are a total solution, since I'm not that skookum on KVI, watts and all that electrical stuff when it comes to "what the actual capacity is" from these types of sources.
Our initial planning meeting for the workshop identified above is 8:30 a.m., Oct. 30 at the King County Regional Communications and Emergency Coordination Center (RCECC) in the Training Room.
