News: New Resilience Standard Proposed for Critical Facilities — What Operators Must Do in 90 Days
A proposed resilience standard tightens telemetry and testing requirements for facilities considered critical to community safety — a practical 90‑day compliance plan for operators.
Hook: A New Standard Means Rapid Operational Changes
Regulators proposed a resilience standard today that requires critical facilities to maintain higher telemetry fidelity, documented islanding procedures, and regular commissioning tests. Operators have roughly 90 days to demonstrate compliance planning.
What the Proposal Requires
- Sub-minute telemetry for critical assets.
- Quarterly islanding tests with documented results.
- Retention of commissioning documentation and test evidence for five years.
90‑Day Practical Compliance Plan
- Inventory critical assets and map telemetry gaps.
- Automate documentation intake and storage; use batch AI scanning and local connectors to ingest legacy records quickly (DocScan Cloud).
- Schedule and execute a rolling set of islanding tests using portable grid simulators.
- Implement query performance tuning to ensure analytics can process sub-minute telemetry data (queries tuning).
Staffing and Governance
Assign a small cross-functional team (operations, compliance, IT) with weekly 30-minute check-ins to keep momentum — examples of streamlined meeting cadences appear in calendar.live.
Event and Stakeholder Coordination
For facilities that support public events, coordinate with event organizers to embed islanding tests into event setup windows. Duration and scheduling changes (notably festival programming shifts) affect testing windows; consider duration tools for alignment.
"This proposal changes the compliance conversation from paperwork to operational readiness." — Regulatory Affairs Lead
Risk Exposure and Mitigation
- Data retention risk: Mitigate by centralizing archives and automating ingestion.
- Operational risk: Use shadow tests before live islanding.
- Budget risk: Capture compliance work in capital plans tied to resilience funding.
Resources to Expedite Compliance
Start with automation of legacy documents (DocScan Cloud), improve telemetry processing with analytics tuning (queries tuning), and coordinate governance using focused meeting rhythms (calendar.live).
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