Welcome to The A-B-Cs of Temporary Emergency Power.

• Provide an overview of each of the lessons in the A-B-Cs of Temporary Emergency Power Course.
• Describe when Temporary Emergency Power is needed.
• Define the term “critical facility.”
• Define which facilities can be considered critical facilities during a Temporary Emergency Power mission.
• Describe the prioritization process for providing Temporary Emergency Power to identified facilities.

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• Lesson 1 – Introduction and Critical Facility Identification
• This lesson covers the introduction to this course and defines the term “Critical Facility.”
• Lesson 2 – Emergency Power Mitigation and Best Practices
• This lesson covers various mitigation opportunities that an entity may elect to utilize to increase the resiliency of electrical power at a facility.
• The lesson will also present some best practices being undertaken in some communities of practice.
• Lesson 3 – Emergency Power Preparedness and Best Practices
• This lesson outlines the need to conduct a generator assessment at a facility and what essential elements of information are required.
• The lesson also addresses options for locating generators and procurement options.
• Lesson 4 – Generator Installation – Phase I
• This lesson covers the overall process and steps for installing a generator at a facility.

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• Lesson 5 – Generator Installation – Phase II
• This lesson covers the maintenance and servicing of installed generators.
• Lesson 6 – Demobilization
• This lesson addresses the generator de-installation process and steps.
• Lesson 7 – Safety
• This lesson outlines the various safety elements required along the process of generator installation and de-installation.

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We will now continue with the content of the first lesson.

• The commercial power grid had been impacted by a localized or widespread event.
• The power utility provides a long term time period until widespread power might be restored.
• Facilities normally serviced by the grid do not have electrical power, yet the community requires these facilities to provide response and initial recovery support.

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• "Critical facilities" are defined as those structures from which essential services and functions for victim survival, continuation of public safety actions, and disaster recovery are performed or provided.
• Shelters, emergency operation centers; public health, public drinking water, sewer and wastewater facilities are all examples of critical facilities.

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• These are facilities typically owned and operated by a municipality, county, State or Tribal Nation government, and are critical to event response and recovery in the community.
• Examples include public schools and universities being used as shelters, various public safety related facilities (police stations, 911 call centers, fire stations, etc.), public water and waste water facilities, public hospitals, prisons and correctional facilities, and emergency medical service facilities.

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• Not owned and operated by a municipality, county, State or Tribal Nation government, but critical to event response and recovery in the community
• Examples include churches or houses of worship being used as shelters, hospitals, prisons and correctional facilities, emergency medical service facilities, dialysis centers, and private water and wastewater facilities.
• Sometimes commercial facilities can be deemed critical, situation-dependent.

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• Small community convenience stores who provide the fuels used by the local public safety providers as the municipality size does not warrant or allow them operating a municipal fuel station.
• During an ice storm, a local commercial propane supplier was provided a generator to supply propane to impacted residents for heat, personal sanitation, and meal preparation.
• During some events, cellular transmission towers have been identified as being critical to local response and recovery efforts.
• AM/FM radio stations have received generators to allow community messaging to be broadcast related to the event.

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• This is a local, county, State and/or Tribal Nation determination depending upon the event and its impacts to overall response and recovery activities and requirements.
• The definition of “critical” can also alter as time passes.
• Immediate response facilities such as police, fire, and hospitals may be deemed critical immediately after an event.
• Water/Wastewater facilities may become critical as recovery operations continue.
• The overall event scope and commercial grid restoration timeline defines much of what facility may be deemed “critical” at the time.

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Priority levels can be established by any government entity.

Typically, there are three basic priority levels:

• Life Saving
• Examples: Hospitals, fire stations, 911 call centers
• Life Sustaining
• Examples: Shelters, soup kitchens, large provider water/wastewater systems
• Other (the State of Florida uses “Infrastructure” as their third level)
• Examples: Water/wastewater system trunk lines, local government administrative facilities

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• To begin, the local emergency manager of a municipality, county, or tribe identifies the facilities without power that are requesting Temporary Emergency Power, or generators.
• If the municipality, county, or tribe can meet these needs locally, they do so. However, if these needs can’t be met locally, the emergency manager requests resources at the State or Tribal Nation level.
• If the needs can’t be met at the State or Tribal Nation level, then the State or Tribal Nation requests resources at the Federal level.
• The priority of facilities that need generators should be established at the local level and forwarded on with their requests for resources. However, the State or Tribal Nation can change that priority, or impose restrictions, as they see fit.
• Facilities that ultimately receive generators are based on the final prioritization at the State or Tribal Nation level.

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• Provided an overview of each of the lessons in the A-B-Cs of Temporary Emergency Power Course.
• Described when Temporary Emergency Power is needed.
• Defined the term “critical facility.”
• Defined which private facilities can be considered a critical facilities during a Temporary Emergency Power mission.
• Described the prioritization process for providing Temporary Emergency Power to identified facilities.

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