Storm Hardening and Resilience

Climate change is no longer a distant threat – it’s a present reality manifesting in increasingly frequent and severe weather events that test utility infrastructure to its breaking point. Hurricanes, ice storms, floods, heat waves, and extreme winds occur with intensifying frequency and impact, each event resulting in massive outages, emergency response costs, customer hardship, and reputational damage.

For utilities, storm hardening and resilience have evolved from periodic maintenance considerations into strategic imperatives demanding billions in capital investment. The challenge isn’t just the magnitude of investment required, but the fundamental difficulty of quantifying resilience value, prioritizing across competing hardening strategies, and securing regulatory cost recovery for preventing problems that may never materialize.