What Clients Say
“When serving as the FEMA administrator, and when I led the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency (RIEMA), I was always concerned about emergency power vulnerabilities at our critical infrastructure facilities, especially hospitals. One of the most important projects I launched at RIEMA was an emergency power resilience initiative to assess the generator fleet in our hospitals and evaluate the existing protocol for generator status reporting during outages. I turned to Eric Cote to help lead this project given his expertise in this area. Eric helped us identify some vulnerabilities and worked with me and my staff to create a new protocol to accelerate emergency power threat reporting. Eric also authored Protecting Patients When Disaster Strikes, a heralded RIEMA Playbook that introduced our new emergency power status reporting protocol and other best practices to safeguard emergency power. Eric brought a lot of passion to this project and I was proud to see him use our initiative as a roadmap for a similar project he led in California.”
Pete Gaynor Vice President, Resiliency and Disaster Recovery Hill International
Former FEMA Administrator, Former Director of RIEMA
“As the Electric Infrastructure Security Council works to help America prepare for the impact of an unprecedented, widespread and prolonged power outage, Eric Cote’s expertise in emergency power resilience has been a great resource for us. A catastrophic power outage could easily exhaust the sizeable federal fleet of generators and quickly deplete more limited state resources, forcing painful life and death decisions about which critical facilities will receive limited emergency power assets. Eric’s deep understanding of the challenges such a scenario would present has given us a blueprint for the contingency planning we need to be doing now to minimize loss of life should we ever face such a catastrophic power outage.”
Chris Beck, Chief Scientist and Vice President for Policy
Electric Infrastructure Security Council
“Thank you Eric for everything you have done to make Los Angeles County better prepared. We couldn’t have done it without your persistence and expertise.”
Terry Crammer, Chief, Disaster Response and Coordination
Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency