TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-phase assessment and adaptation of power systems resilience to natural hazards
AU - Espinoza, Sebastián
AU - Panteli, Mathaios
AU - Mancarella, Pierluigi
AU - Rudnick, Hugh
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - Extreme weather hazards, as high-impact low-probability events, have catastrophic consequences on critical infrastructures. As a direct impact of climate change, the frequency and severity of some of these events is expected to increase in the future, which highlights the necessity of evaluating their impact and investigating how can systems withstand a major disruption with limited degradation and recover rapidly. This paper first presents a multi-phase resilience assessment framework that can be used to analyze any natural threat that may have a severe single, multiple and/or continuous impact on critical infrastructures, such as electric power systems. Namely, these phases are (i) threat characterization, (ii) vulnerability assessment of the system's components, (iii) system's reaction and (iv) system's restoration. Second, multi-phase adaptation cases, i.e. making the system more robust, redundant and responsive are explained to discuss different strategies to enhance the resilience of the electricity network. To illustrate the above, this time-dependent framework is applied to assess the impact of potential future windstorms and floods on a reduced version of the Great Britain's power network. Finally, the adaptation cases are evaluated to conclude in what situations a stronger, bigger or smarter grid is preferred against the uncertain future.
AB - Extreme weather hazards, as high-impact low-probability events, have catastrophic consequences on critical infrastructures. As a direct impact of climate change, the frequency and severity of some of these events is expected to increase in the future, which highlights the necessity of evaluating their impact and investigating how can systems withstand a major disruption with limited degradation and recover rapidly. This paper first presents a multi-phase resilience assessment framework that can be used to analyze any natural threat that may have a severe single, multiple and/or continuous impact on critical infrastructures, such as electric power systems. Namely, these phases are (i) threat characterization, (ii) vulnerability assessment of the system's components, (iii) system's reaction and (iv) system's restoration. Second, multi-phase adaptation cases, i.e. making the system more robust, redundant and responsive are explained to discuss different strategies to enhance the resilience of the electricity network. To illustrate the above, this time-dependent framework is applied to assess the impact of potential future windstorms and floods on a reduced version of the Great Britain's power network. Finally, the adaptation cases are evaluated to conclude in what situations a stronger, bigger or smarter grid is preferred against the uncertain future.
KW - Electric power systems
KW - Floods
KW - Fragility curves
KW - Resilience
KW - Resiliency
KW - Windstorms
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962632110&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.epsr.2016.03.019
DO - 10.1016/j.epsr.2016.03.019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84962632110
SN - 0378-7796
VL - 136
SP - 352
EP - 361
JO - Electric Power Systems Research
JF - Electric Power Systems Research
ER -