Grid on the Brink: The Deep Freeze
The forecast says once-in-a-generation cold. The generation fleet says it's ready. Both can't be right — and by 1:20 a.m. on the first night, thousands of megawatts are tripping offline while demand climbs toward records.
Inspired by the grid emergency that reshaped an industry's view of winter risk, this advanced scenario drives your operations and executive teams through cascading, compounding failure: load shed that grows past every plan, 'rotating' outages that can't rotate, gas and electric systems dragging each other down, and life-safety stakes rising with every hour of cold.
Then comes the part most exercises skip: the reckoning — hearings, financial exposure, and a public that will remember how you communicated more than what failed.
2 hrAdvanced
Utilities & energyNERC CIP
What this scenario tests
- Whether your load-shed and critical-load decisions hold up when the plan's assumptions collapse
- How your team communicates when your own outage predictions are failing publicly
- Whether your organization understands its gas-electric interdependencies before they bite
- How your leaders face the political and financial aftermath of a grid emergency
Who it's for
Operations Team · Executive / C-Suite · Communications / PR