There have been 12 billion-dollar weather or climate disasters in the United States as of July 2023, and electric utilities are bracing for further impact. The growing threat of increasingly severe weather due to climate change will continue to test distribution grid reliability and resilience. At the end of this storm season, utilities will be able to see clearly which efforts have succeeded in improving resilience and reliability and which efforts they need to improve.
Some electric utilities will see relative improvements in reliability and resilience and will report their reliability metrics, as scheduled, to the regulatory bodies that govern them.
