State Governance, Planning, & Financing to Enhance Energy Resilience

To help Governors and State Energy Offices strengthen state preparedness, this guide describes the range of resilience governance structures, plans, and funding mechanisms that states are leveraging to enhance energy resilience. The report is underscored by descriptive examples and case studies throughout. There is no single “best” approach to energy resilience and the path taken will likely depend on multiple factors. As a result, many of the practices highlighted in this paper can be implemented in parallel. But as state leaders continue to shift focus to pre-disaster mitigation, this report illustrates how energy, can be included as a core facet to those efforts.