Case Study: Resilience Benefits of Distributed Wind Against Fuel and Weather Hazards in Alaska

Conference · Thu Jul 21 00:00:00 UTC 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM48719.2022.9917084· OSTI ID:1975075

Culler, Megan Jordan ^[1]; Bukowski, Stephen Arthur ^[1]; Barrows, Sarah ^[2]; Mongird, Kendall ^[2]; Gentle, Jake P ^[1]

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1. Idaho National Laboratory
2. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

In this case study of St. Mary’s Village, Alaska, we present a resilience evaluation exercise. A resilience framework is employed to identify system characteristics, relevant metrics, and resilience hazards and to assess the performance against the hazards with and without a distributed wind turbine installed. The results show the resilience benefits provided by the distributed wind installation against fuel shortage hazards and cold weather hazards. The resilience benefits can be assigned monetary values, which will be highly dependent on actual circumstances of the hazard, but provide insight into value streams of distributed wind that are not usually considered. For example, the single 900 kW turbine was found to prevent an average of 14,643 kWh of load from being dropped during a two-day diesel fuel shortage event, which saved the community $447,592 by preventing outages. This case study serves as an example for novel power system resilience analysis and builds understanding of resilience hazards that are common across many power systems.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 1975075
• Report Number(s): INL/CON-22-68066-Rev000
• Conference Information: IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting 2022, Denver, CO, 07/17/2022 - 07/22/2022
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

17 WIND ENERGY
24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
distributed wind
fuel shortage
power system planning
resilience
valuation
weather hazard