How do you test the resilience of a multinational electric grid system that 40 million people rely on? You play.
Major tabletop exercises like GridEx are designed to stretch critical infrastructure providers’ resilience and emergency response plans, finding gaps and uncovering ways that government partners can better support electricity providers during crises, says Manny Cancel, senior vice president at NERC and CEO of the E-ISAC.
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