Power Grid Resilience, Second Edition, Volume 2: High Winds, Wildfires, Cybersecurity, and System Reinforcement

Power Grid Resilience, Second Edition, Volume 2: High Winds, Wildfires, Cybersecurity, and System Reinforcement addresses the newest and fastest-growing threats to critical infrastructure. Wildfire exposure and increasingly capable cyberattacks now stress interconnected energy networks beyond what conventional physical hardening alone can manage, and power industry professionals need operating strategies built for these conditions. This volume pairs current threat modeling with workflows that utilities can put into practice, giving organizations a clear plan for defending systems whose failure carries severe public consequences. With a foreword by Mark Lauby, senior vice president and chief engineer of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, the book supplies the predictive frameworks needed to keep systems stable, protect public safety, and sustain service through the worst events a grid will face.

This volume introduces a quantitative resilience planning framework meant to guide long-term infrastructure investment, risk management, and recovery capability. The text examines high-wind impacts, wind turbine performance in severe weather, structural hardening, wildfire risk modeling, and how utility equipment, environment, and ignition mechanisms interact. Beyond physical hazards, the material covers grid cybersecurity vulnerabilities, modern defensive architectures, and the mitigation techniques required to secure automated control and operational technology systems. Readers work through analytical models, predictive data methods, and AI-based anomaly detection that can flag systemic weaknesses before they contribute to major failures. Because the technical theory is grounded in documented utility case histories throughout, the book turns environmental, structural, and cyber risks that often resist analysis into structured engineering methodology.

Written for electrical engineers, utility planners, energy infrastructure operators, cybersecurity researchers, and technical policymakers, this text gives professionals the tools to design and operate resilient power systems. Its st ructured methods support capital allocation decisions for grid reinforcement and modernization, and help engineering leaders and utility executives move from reacting to crises toward planning for them with data. Professionals will come away with a working framework for leading major resilience deployments, meeting regulatory requirements, and keeping power flowing reliably as operating conditions grow harsher and less forgiving.