Resilience Metrics: Current Practices, Challenges, and Emerging Approaches, May 8, 2026

Brief

Myles Collins of Berkeley Lab presented a webinar (NARUC/NASEO, May 8, 2026) that surveyed current and new resilience metrics for utility planning. In this technical presentation he compared outage-duration, load-loss, availability, and scenario-based measures; highlighted data, definition, and valuation challenges; and recommended standardized metrics, scenario modeling, and integration into regulatory and investment processes.

Why it matters

Myles Collins (Berkeley Lab) reviewed existing and emerging resilience metrics—including outage-duration, load-loss, service-availability, and scenario-based system performance measures—to support investment decisions, regulatory review, and long-term utility planning (NARUC/NASEO webinar, May 8, 2026).

Key details

He identified key challenges—data gaps, inconsistently defined metrics, valuing avoided losses, and integrating metrics into regulatory processes—and outlined approaches such as scenario-based modeling, standardized definitions, monetization of avoided impacts, and embedding metrics in a broader resilience planning framework.

This session of the NARUC and NASEO - National Association of State Energy Officials Technical Foundations of Grid Resilience Cohort webinar series explored resilience metrics for utility planning.

During this webinar, Myles Collins of Berkeley Lab discussed current and new metrics, challenges in developing and applying resilience metrics, and approaches for measuring and valuing resilience to support investment decisions, regulatory review, long-term planning, and how metrics fit into the bigger picture of building a resilience planning framework.

Channel: NARUC
Published: 2026-05-19
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlVwGTSosB4