Today a major heat wave is across much of US.

This can cause stresses on the power systems during peak loads times. Hot night times also don't always allow power systems equipment to cool down properly.

Using the Fleet Open/Closed service, users are able to see the impacts of prolonged heat waves have on potential power outages for essential service providers .

The AHC tested a new solutions during winter storm JONAS.

A new Disaster Dashboard app that allows the ability to merge various types of information into a single, graphical app that expedites decision making and gets government and industry on the same page regionally.
 
•Problem Statement
–During large, regional storms/disasters, the private needs to move fleets and resources quickly across state lines. Getting reliable situational awareness and information is difficult in order to support this. Decision makers needs the big picture. Government cannot assist private sector if they don’t know what is going on.

•Solution
–Create visual, real-time mechanism to view and collaborate during a regional disaster
–Merge information from disparate sources & in different formats to provide decision makers a simple view of the big picture so they can make decisions faster

Partnering with NOAA and StormCenter Inc, this collaborative capability allows for multiple layers of data to be shared at the regional, local or national level to support decision makers.

This slide show both public information and private sector information being merged together in support of the electric sector’s need to expedite fleet movement across state lines and the state’s desire to have situational awareness with private sector needs during a disaster

This capability can:

• Central state disaster declarations, waivers and other guidance to private sector in a single place
• Provide contact information
• Give live update
• Access to real-time status and directions to private sector business who can provide essential services to citizen and out if region response crews who need fuel, food, hotel rooms, medications, water, building supplies, etc.. …. in the impacted areas
• Access to live NOAA weather data
• Access to estimated fleet movement data provide by the private sector so states can understand and support as needed

Enables NEW Decision Making and Situational Awareness Capabilities

• This Help Desk capability supports decision makers in government & industry
• Merges public and private sector information to have situational awareness during a disaster (e.g. data streams, pics, docs, pdfs, screen shots, etc.…)
• Allows collaboration of live and static data
• Creates custom dashboard to centralize information by Use Case, Sector, Incident, etc…
• Future Use Cases will create other operational decision making tools