Our Plans - The Next Steps

Strategic Goals:

  • Long-term: Protect all US critical infrastructure from widespread failure lasting months or more.

  • Medium-term: Ensure the resilience of electric power as the “keystone” infrastructure upon which all others depend.

  • Short-term (2021-22): Focus on protecting microgrids as a demonstration that local citizen activism can influence business and government. decision-makers to take immediate action to protect electric power in the communities they serve.

Tactical Goals:

  • Increase public awareness of the threat of long-term, widespread power outages.

  • Educate potential opinion-leaders, activists, and decision-makers on why and how microgrids can be protected.

  • Motivate these constituencies to take impactful action in their spheres of influence.

  • Provide informational, promotional, financial, and political support for these activities.

Execution:

  • Promote awareness and education on this issue through:

    • media- and direct- outreach to and engagement with opinion-leaders, activists, and decision-makers;

  • Create, own, and manage:

    • a website and social media sites;

    • a database of microgrids by type, degree of protection, geography, and stage of development;

    • multi-tiered Industry standards and certification of protection and resilience from electronic, cyber, and physical threats.

  • Enlist support for these activities from:

    • Volunteers;

    • Financial donors

    • Aligned organizations

Key Metrics:

  • Media: Online, mainstream, blogs, newsletters, etc.

  • Volunteer: Quantity and diversity of volunteers by geography, demographics, and expertise.

  • Financial: Donations from public and private sources enable the hiring of professional staff and support for affiliated and/or aligned organizations and local activists.

  • Action: Impactful government edicts; public and private investment as measured by the degree of protection; population served; and collateral benefits to the protection and resilience of the macro-grid and other critical infrastructure.

 

Understand Your Community’s Vulnerabilities and Needs

With our help...

…find out if there is a public purpose microgrid project planned in a community of special interest to you, your family, friends or colleagues. The Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project is just one example of the kind of projects that will be developed by local communities in the days to come.

…research whether taxpayer dollars are being used for this project and who will be making decisions about whether this project will effectively protect its constituents against EMP, solar flares, hacker or terrorist attacks, severe weather emergencies, and mismanagement of power resources.

…organize a team of concerned citizens to let these decision-makers know that protection against these threats is important to you.

…join our national team of activists who will work to ensure our country is adequately protected from such threats.