Dan Ton, Program Manager of Smart Grid R&D in the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, has co-authored an article entitled “Grid Resilience to Natural Disasters: Challenges and Opportunities Lie Ahead”. The article, which appears in the June 2016 issue of IEEE SmartGrid Newsletter, discusses forecast models, hardening and resilience optimization, power system restoration issues, and interdependence among different infrastructure assets.  Other authors of the article are Yezhou Wang with Castleton Commodities International and Jianhui Wang, Section Lead for Advanced Power Grid Modeling at the Energy Systems Division at Argonne National Laboratory.  The article is now available HERE.