Other Projects
Mark Mills to be Program Chair for Forbes Global Energy Forum
November 2008
Doha, Qatar
The first annual Forbes Global Energy Forum in Doha brings together world leaders and thinkers to connect and collaborate over two days of candid discussion on the future of energy supply and demand, and the business and political implications of both.
 The Critical Power Coalition
The Critical Power Coalition (CPC) was formed by leading providers and users of critical-power products and services. CPC is focused on the operational, technology, and policy issues relating to on-site quality, reliability, and continuity of electric power where and when it is vital.
For more information on Critical Power, please read:
Critical Power White Paper (pdf)
Mark Mills & Peter Huber
August 2003
Electricity occupies a uniquely important role in the infrastructure of modern society. A complete loss of power shuts down telephone switches, wireless cell towers, bank computers, E911 operator centers, police communication networks, hospital emergency rooms, air traffic control, street lights, and the electrically actuated valves and pumps that move water, oil, and gas, along with the dedicated, highly-specialized communications networks that control those physical networks. Familiar and pedestrian though electric power may seem, it is the first domino of critical infrastructure.
The public electric grid, however, is inherently vulnerable. Relatively small numbers of huge power plants are linked to millions of locations by hundreds of thousands of miles of exposed wires. Nearly all the high-voltage lines run above ground and traverse open country, and a handful of high-voltage lines serve entire metropolitan regions. And serious problems tend to propagate rapidly through the grid itself.
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