THE THREAT OF MAJOR POWER OUTAGES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING SOCIETAL RESILIENCE
Abstract
Our society increasingly faces the threat of both minor and major power outages, leading to numerous social consequences. The most critical are major power outages, which affect larger geographical areas (more electricity users) around the world every year, for a longer period of time (e.g. for 12-24 hours or even several days or months). At the Defence Research Centre of the University of Ljubljana, we conducted a research project entitled E- armageddon, which resulted, among other things, in the creation of numerous recommendations with regard to increasing social resilience in the event of such a scenario. In this article we provide 27 such recommendations, with the aim of promoting national preparedness at various levels.
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