Our Expertise
Energy utilities are facing a rapidly evolving risk landscape and rising energy demands, creating a challenging and dynamic environment to navigate. With significant investment in energy infrastructure across all levels of government and the private sector, public and private entities are recognizing the need to adapt to shifting natural, physical, and cyber threats while enhancing emergency preparedness initiatives. By prioritizing infrastructure programs, risk mitigation planning, and crisis preparedness activities, organizations can stay ahead of emerging challenges.
At Hagerty, we leverage extensive experience in utility emergency preparedness, response, and recovery to support clients nationwide in strengthening the resilience of their assets, operations, and people. Our team helps energy utilities of all sizes, state agencies, and membership organizations assess and reimagine crisis response strategies and plans, conduct impactful training and exercises, identify, secure, and manage federal funding opportunities, and more.
Our Energy Resilience Services
Program Assessments
Whether you need an informed assessment of existing emergency or operations plans and capabilities or a professional after-action review following an incident or event, Hagerty’s teams have experience conducting stakeholder-driven, data-informed assessments for utilities. Through these program assessments, Hagerty helps clients strengthen existing emergency programs and develop more structured, comprehensive capabilities.
Training and Exercises
Hagerty helps utilities prepare for and respond to emergencies through customized training programs and exercise series. Our team addresses a range of critical resilience areas and requirements, including Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requirements for exercising Emergency Action Plans (EAP). Hagerty also incorporates concepts from the National Incident Management System (NIMS) to tailor our approach to each utility’s specific capabilities and operating environment. Our experience extends across the utility sector, including water and wastewater utilities, where we support preparedness through realistic training, exercises, and emergency planning.
Regional and National Exercises
Hagerty has supported utilities and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) in developing comprehensive grid security and emergency exercises, including GridEx VI, VII, and VIII. Additionally, our team has collaborated with utility providers and government agencies nationwide to strengthen emergency response capabilities.
Hazard-Specific Planning
Our teams bring extensive experience developing and updating plans and procedures that are user-friendly, relevant, and reflective of current capabilities. Hagerty has collaborated with state energy offices across the country to develop and exercise State Energy Security Plans (SESPs). We have also worked with jurisdictions on commodity-shortage planning initiatives, such as Regional Fuel Contingency Plans, and helped utilities create hazard-specific plans for Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS), rotating outages, and gas curtailment. Our team has also worked with state emergency management offices to assess wildfire management and response procedures to strengthen wildfire recovery and grants processes.
Grants Management
We partner with state governments and public utilities to assess energy resilience priorities and design federally funded energy resilience programs. Our team also provides expertise to help clients navigate and leverage federal funding opportunities for energy resilience initiatives.
Response Support
Hagerty provides response and staff augmentation services to help clients manage the immediate and ongoing demands of an emergency. Our teams can deliver rapid operational and planning assistance immediately following a disaster and remain engaged throughout recovery. This sustained support helps establish a structured, capable emergency management program that strengthens your organization’s ability to navigate future challenges.
Our Comprehensive Approach
Hagerty’s teams work together seamlessly across disciplines to provide comprehensive emergency management support, from mitigation and preparedness to response and recovery. Over the past decade, we have refined our services to meet the unique needs of utilities and organizations within the energy sector.
We have served many of our clients through comprehensive program development, providing expertise and recommendations that evolve into planning initiatives, trainings, exercises, and ongoing collaboration. Through these partnerships, clients rely on Hagerty for immediate response and post-incident support, while building the capabilities needed to strengthen resilience across the full lifecycle of emergency and risk management.
