Disaster Preparedness Offers Big Payoffs for Utilities

Oguah, Samuel ; Khosla, Sunil

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: NATURAL DISASTER;    DISASTER PREPAREDNESS;    MANAGEMENT;    ASSESSMENT;    UTILITIES;   

RP-ID  :  120677

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Achieving the right balance betweenresilience and the cost of electricity poses a challenge.Technical solutions are available to mitigate the risksposed by most hazards, but they affect the prices customerspay for power and may be difficult to justify to regulators.Because power system assets are long-lived, they cannot beeasily replaced to take advantage of advances in technology.This is where good planning comes in: depreciated, obsolete,or damaged equipment can be replaced with hazardhardycomponents. Operators must plan to “build back better.”