American National Standards Institute's Homeland Security Standards Panel (ANSI-HSSP)

"..identify existing consensus standards, or, if none exists, assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and those sectors requesting assistance to accelerate development and adoption of consensus standards critical to homeland security."

• ANSI-HSSP Site

ANSI/NFPA 1600 Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity

• Read the Report

Electric slide for tech industry?, CNET, 12/06

• “ The computing industry is on a power trip, but it doesn't want to be.”

EPA Enterprise Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency Initiatives

• “To study and promote the use of energy efficient computer servers in the United States.” Final results will be transmitted to Congress in June 2007.

Tech Firms Go Mining for Megawatts, Washington Post, 7/06

• “Companies Rush To Exploit Region's Cheap Electricity”

Servers As High As An Elephant's Eye, Business Week 06.06

• “As Web-based computing surges, massive server farms are springing up.”

Microsoft's cash versus Google, Fortune, 05/06

• “The software giant's plan to build datacenters the size of 10 Costcos, complete with electrical substations, signals a major shift in the industry's fundamental economics.”

Securities Industry Association Business Continuity Planning Committee Critical Infrastructure Guide, January 2005

• Business Continuity Planning
• Critical Infrastructure Guide

GSA Energy Security Summit, 11/4/04

• "The workshop will focus on energy security, from multiple viewpoints."
• Website

NYC Office of Emergency Management, "Enhancing New York City's Emergency Preparedness," 10/03

• "The Task Force examined the impact of the [08/14/03] outage."
• Recommendation #9: "Conduct a backup power survey and develop a backup power installation plan"

IEEE Spectrum
"The Unruly Power Grid"

Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center
See in particular:

• Publications
• "Electrical Blackouts: A Systemic Problem"
• "Blackouts Are Inevitable"

The 9/11 Commission Report

"We endorse the American National Standards Institute's recommended standard for private preparedness.. Private-sector preparedness is not a luxury; it is a cost of doing business in the post-9/11 world." [415]
9/11 Commission Site