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Emergency
Management Agency
Emergency Operations
Center (EOC)
Emergency Support
Functions (ESFs)
Energy Assurance
Energy Assurance
Coordinator
Energy Assurance
Partners
Energy Efficiency
Energy Infrastructure
Energy Supplier
Essential Services and
Functions
Federal Emergency
Management Agency
(FEMA)
Geomagnetic
Disturbance
Independent Power
Producer (IPP)
Investor-Owned Utility
(IOU)
An agency at the local, regional, or State level that holds responsibility for
comprehensively planning for and responding to all manner of disasters, whether manmade
or natural.
A central command and control facility responsible for carrying out the principles of
emergency preparedness and emergency management, or disaster management
functions at a strategic level in an emergency situation, and ensuring the continuity of
operations of a company, political subdivision, or other organization.
Grouping of governmental and certain private sector capabilities into an organizational
structure to provide support, resources, program implementation, and services that are
most likely needed to save lives, protect property and the environment, restore essential
services and critical infrastructure, and help victims and communities return to normal
following domestic incidents.
Involves a vast array of activities, and falls into three main categories: preparation and
planning, mitigation and response, and education and outreach. Preparation and planning
involve identifying key assets and points-of-contact, designing and updating energy
emergency response plans, training personnel, and conducting exercises that test the
effectiveness of response plans. Mitigation and response activities include monitoring
events that may affect energy supplies, assessing the severity of disruptions, providing
situational awareness, coordinating restoration efforts, and tracking recoveries. Education
and outreach activities include communicating and coordinating with key stakeholders,
increasing public awareness, and forming partnerships across sectors and jurisdictions.
The individual responsible for leading and building consensus around EAP development
and implementation.
The group of stakeholders that work with the energy assurance coordinator to develop
and implement the EAP for a local government.
Using less energy to provide the same level of energy service or to perform the same level
of work.
Pipelines, power plants, distribution networks, transmission lines, and the like.
An entity—utility or otherwise—that supplies energy in its various forms (electricity, natural
gas, petroleum fuel, etc.) to a local jurisdiction.
Services a local government must provide and functions performed in order to assure
safety, wellbeing, and security for its inhabitants. Most often these services are mandated
in a jurisdiction’s charter or enabling legislation and paid for by property and/or sales
taxes, fees, and the like.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency coordinates the Federal government’s role
in preparing for, preventing, mitigating the effects of, responding to, and recovering from
all domestic disasters, whether natural or man-made, including acts of terror.
A temporary disturbance of the Earth’s magnetosphere caused by a disturbance in
space weather. Associated with solar flares and resultant solar coronal mass ejections
(CME), a geomagnetic storm can severely impact electricity transmission and distribution
equipment, among other critical infrastructure.
An entity that is not a public utility, but which owns facilities to generate electric power
for sale to utilities and end users. IPPs may be privately-held facilities, cooperatives such
as rural solar or wind energy producers, and other industrial concerns capable of feeding
excess energy into the system.
A business organization providing a product or service regarded as a utility (often termed
a public utility regardless of ownership), and managed as a private enterprise rather than
as a function of government or a utility cooperative. An IOU is typically a regulated entity
at the State level. As such, the regulatory body (e.g., Public Utility Commission) may
dictate required responsibilities that differ from State to State.
80 | Appendix A – Glossary of Key Terms