Cooperative Continuity Management Bill Willingham Florida Electric Cooperatives Association, Inc. Tallahassee, FL
Approximately 900 coops and 2,000 municipally-owned electric utilities
Mitigation/Hardening There are several things that co-ops can do to “harden” the system, but they are not cheap or without complications
Overhead Pole Inspections Vegetation Management Design/Construction Standards
Vegetation Management
Design/Construction Standards Overhead facilities can be built to withstand higher winds if money is not an issue, but even the strongest designs cannot withstand trees, debris, tornados, or microbursts Florida Keys EC is building to extreme wind standard
Underground Problems flexibility in rural areas cost longer non-disaster outages coastal areas flood prone areas trees