Delivering electricity across a service territory that has an estimated population of approximately 14 million people and spanning more than 54,000 square miles, Oncor operates the largest pure-play wires utility in the United States. With nearly 150,000 circuit miles of transmission and distribution infrastructure, maintaining resilience at this scale is increasingly complex as Texas experiences rapid growth, electrification, and more frequent extreme weather events.

In response, Oncor is executing its first 3-year, $3 billion System Resiliency Plan (SRP)—the first plan of its kind approved in Texas. Enabled by recent legislation, the SRP represents a transformational step forward, allowing Oncor to expand the scope and scale of long-standing resiliency programs, accelerate implementation, and deliver resiliency benefits to customers sooner.

The SRP is designed to help the grid better withstand and recover more quickly from extreme weather and other threats, reducing both the frequency and duration of outages while lowering long-term restoration costs. Investments span system hardening, wildfire mitigation, expanded vegetation management, distribution automation, and enhanced physical and cybersecurity protections.

This session will provide an overview of how Texas is addressing resiliency and risk mitigation, along with Oncor’s SRP strategy and implementation progress. Attendees will gain insight into how Oncor is leveraging physics-based digital twin modeling, advanced wildfire risk analytics, and an expanding suite of remote sensing technologies to proactively identify system vulnerabilities and prioritize resiliency investments at scale.