Dataset for: Electric Vulnerability Index: Targeted Energy Storage Implementation Metric
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Uninterrupted access to electricity is critical to the safety and security of American households. More frequent and extreme emergency events increase outages across the country, disproportionately impacting vulnerable communities that experience the most frequent and longest outages, are most sensitive to the loss of electric power, and have the least capacity to adapt to these conditions. This study devises a metric, the Electric Vulnerability Index (EVI), and validates this metric against the 2021 Winter Storm Uri in Texas. Though not ubiquitous, similar trends were observed between adjacent areas with higher EVI and those with higher outage rates from this storm. EVI is offered as a viable approach to quantify a population’s vulnerability to electric outages and maps that index across the continental United States to aid policymakers, advocates, and energy system stakeholders in the targeted deployment of resilience solutions, such as energy storage, to communities most in need. This dataset includes the geopackage file containing all relevant attributes used to generate the maps used in the accompanying paper.
- Research Organization:
- PNNL (PNNL2)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)
- Contributing Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 2569841
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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