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Figure SPM-3. Billion-Dollar Disaster Event Types by Year
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Chapter 2, Figure 2-2.
Goals for TS&D Infrastructure Policy
This first installment of the QER analyzes how to leverage authorities, expertise, and resources to help
modernize and transform the extensive, interlocking, capital-intensive networks constituting the national
energy TS&D system so as to meet, in a complex jurisdictional environment, the evolving set of requirements
and challenges just described. This report presents a set of findings and recommendations, organized around
the high-level goals of energy security, economic competitiveness, and environmental responsibility, in the
context of a set of analytically derived objectives that reflect an integrated assessment of the adequacy of
existing TS&D infrastructures to meet these goals. These objectives include the following:
• Enhancing TS&D infrastructure resilience, reliability, safety, and asset security
• Modernizing the electric grid
• Modernizing the segments of TS&D infrastructure essential for collective energy security
• Improving the increasingly stressed TS&D infrastructures that are shared by energy and other goods
and commodities.
These objectives are also informed and affected by an additional set of crosscutting needs and requirements,
namely the following:
• Promoting environmental responsibility in developing, managing, and updating TS&D infrastructure,
including reducing emissions from infrastructure that could contribute to climate change
• Developing and training the workforce needed for a 21st century energy infrastructure
• Expediting the siting of critical TS&D infrastructures to meet a range of energy needs and policy objectives
• Enhancing North American energy market integration.
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