Our Vision, Mission, and Values

 Our vision for the future:

• “Save millions of lives and trillions of dollars by thwarting the risk of widespread, prolonged utility failure.”

Our strategy to achieve our vision:

• “We will mobilize a critical mass of people in every state to support capital investments and operational improvements that will protect America’s critical infrastructure against man-made and natural risks of long-term, widespread outages. We would do this primarily by influencing state public utility commissions to incentivize or require utilities to make such improvements.”

Our values:

• Operate as a non-profit.

• Advocate public policies in a non-partisan way.

• Presume the goodwill and common interests of fellow-citizens: utility management, government representatives, other public policy advocates and activists.

• Test assumptions. Trust but verify.

• Support private enterprise tempered by regulatory oversight of utilities.

• Rely on and set high standards for volunteer engagement and commitment.

• Maintain financial independence from utilities and avoid all conflicts of interest.

• Focus first on protecting society from catastrophic utility failure, and then on how local communities can best withstand such failures if they happen. 

• Emphasize societal survival to make individual survivalism unnecessary.