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This Third Edition of the EEA Resilience Guide builds on the previous version published in 2022. It incorporates updated guidance and new material in response to recent natural disasters—including a global pandemic and multiple large-scale weather events, that have significantly impacted Electricity Distribution Businesses (EDBs) across New Zealand.

The update has been developed by the Resilience Guide Technical Working Group, operating under the EEA Asset Management Group (AMG), with input from a wide range of industry professionals and organisations.

Prepared by the Electricity Engineers’ Association of New Zealand Inc. (EEA), these guidelines are designed to assist EDBs with distributed network assets to assess and strengthen their resilience to major events that may disrupt their ability to supply electricity to customers.  Prolonged interruptions to electricity supply can have wide-ranging consequences for communities, affecting everything from industrial and commercial operations to the daily lives of residential customers.

Resilience Management Maturity Assessment Tool (RMMAT)

The Guide includes two practical tools:

• the Resilience Management Maturity Assessment Tool (RMMAT), which provides a structured way for EDBs to measure their current level of resilience maturity; and
• the Resilience Planning Roadmap (Section 18), which sets out a staged pathway of actions to help businesses strengthen resilience and continuously improve over time.

The RMMAT spreadsheet is available as a separate download.

ISBN (PDF): 978-0-473-50093-1

• First Published: November 2020
• First Review:  July 2022
• Second Review:  December 2025