Oncor is working on implementing its System Resiliency Plan (SRP) to reduce the impact and duration of severe weather outages and mitigate other risks to electric grid.
The SRP, approved by the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) in November 2024, is the company’s plan to invest approximately $3 billion in the resiliency of its distribution system within the next four years.
The investments and planned activities of Oncor's SRP were methodically selected through a detailed, data-driven process to ensure impacts in proactively addressing potential outage causes and reducing outage minutes. As a result of this targeted approach, this initial SRP will not reach every city within Oncor's vast service area. Oncor is committed to reaching additional communities with future SRPs.
“With this initial SRP, Oncor is fast-tracking high-impact resiliency measures to help avoid and reduce the impact and duration of severe weather outages for our customers," said Brian Lloyd, Vice President of Regulatory Policy. “Our teams began implementation as soon as we received approval for the plan last fall, and we expect SRP activities – and their benefits to customers – to significantly increase throughout the year."
After the SRP was approved, multiple departments within Oncor started enhanced infrastructure inspections, both by ground and with drones, to identify the full scope of work required to implement SRP activities. The inspection results were analyzed by engineering and planning teams to complete construction plans and implementation timelines, some of which have been executed.
While much of the initial SRP efforts focused on analysis and planning, work has begun across the system and is expected to increase in the second quarter of 2025.
The resiliency efforts will help decrease the amount of infrastructure damage leading to customer outages, and decrease equipment failure and storm-recovery costs, while improving the company’s ability to restore power after an outage. Additionally, they will decrease long-term costs for customers by reducing expensive emergency repairs.
