The Federal Energy Management Program’s (FEMP) Technical Resilience Navigator (TRN) Lite helps organizations manage the risk to critical missions from disruptions to energy and water services and critical load operations. The TRN Lite provides a systematic approach to identifying vulnerabilities and inefficiencies with a site’s energy and water systems while auto-generating solutions that are likely to reduce risk. The TRN Lite’s unique focus on energy and water disruptions is intended to integrate with broader emergency preparedness, energy and water management, and security efforts to strengthen the way those programs plan for energy and water resource availability. Completion of the TRN Lite enables organizations to be proactive in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities to their critical energy and water systems, resulting in optimized systems that reduce energy and water outage impacts, costs, and waste while supporting continuous mission operations.

Overview

The TRN Lite offers a step-by-step risk-informed approach to energy and water resilience and critical load continuity planning. Working through this process helps the site build a detailed understanding of plans, priorities, and baseline conditions related to energy and water systems as well as what types of gaps might expose the site to risk. The ultimate outcome of the TRN Lite is a set of actionable solutions that address a site’s most important gaps in resilience and enhance the ability to maintain critical missions in the case of a disruptive event (i.e. natural hazard or an unassociated third-party intervention).

The TRN Lite’s focus on energy and water systems requires an understanding of critical loads and the site’s ability to sustain those loads through a disruptive event. In addition to reducing risk, the TRN Lite helps sites to identify and integrate related organizational priorities – such as sustainability, energy efficiency, and cyber security – into the assessments and resilience solutions.

Users can move through the TRN Lite sections sequentially to conduct stepwise resilience project planning, or they can review sections independently for targeted outcomes. This modular approach to resilience planning allows users to build an institutional foundation from which they can conduct assessments based on their experience and organizational knowledge.

TRN Lite Assessment

The TRN Lite breaks the resilience planning process into five sections. Each section has several subsections that lead users through information collection and specific analyses. The TRN Lite guides users through the key elements of the resilience planning process by identifying actions in each section to document and assess a site’s resilience posture. Subsections in the TRN Lite yield tables and graphs which help sites identify and track key aspects of their energy and water systems as they relate to their organizational resilience planning priorities.

While TRN Lite sections are focused on the specific steps and documentation required to move through the resilience planning process, a list of associated resources is provided to allow interested users the opportunity to explore topics of interest in greater depth, including FAQs to help guide the users through the process.

Though the TRN Lite lays out a sequential path through the resilience planning process, resilience planning is an iterative exercise. Throughout each module, the TRN Lite identifies information that has been automatically mapped between modules. This mapping overlays outcomes identified earlier in the TRN Lite with the evaluation that users are currently undertaking, enabling a broader perspective to achieving specific organizational objectives and priorities.

The TRN Lite process ultimately results in the development of a list of risk-informed, resilience-enhancing solutions that are shown based on the site’s key risk drivers along with best practice recommendations.