Oncor is making progress on implementing its first-ever System Resiliency Plan (SRP), which aims to substantially reduce the impact and duration of severe weather outages and mitigate other risks to our electric grid. The SRP, approved by the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) in November 2024, is our plan to invest approximately $3 billion in the resiliency of our distribution system within the next four years. Oncor was the first utility to receive PUCT approval for its SRP.

The investments and planned activities of Oncor's SRP were methodically selected through a detailed, data-driven process to ensure the greatest 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 activated to begin enhanced infrastructure inspections – both by ground and with drones – to better identify the full scope of work required to implement SRP activities. These inspection results are being analyzed by engineering and planning teams, which will then complete construction plans and implementation timelines, some of which have already been executed.

While much of the initial SRP efforts focused on analysis and planning, work has already taken place across the system, and the pace of this work is expected to ramp up significantly in the second quarter of 2025.

The following actions have been completed as of April 1, 2025:

Below are the SRP’s focus areas and examples of planned activities by focus area: 

These resiliency efforts will help decrease the amount of infrastructure damage that can lead to customer outages, and decrease equipment failure and storm-recovery costs while improving our ability to get power back on faster after an outage. Additionally, they will decrease long-term costs for customers by reducing expensive emergency repairs.

Additional updates about SRP progress will be shared as activities continue. For more information about the SRP, visit www.Oncor.com/Resiliency.