Eastern Seaboard Electric Grid Fragility Maps Supporting Persistent Availability
Abstract
Persistently available power transmission can be disrupted by weather causing power outages with economic and social consequences. This research investigated the effects on the national power grid from a specific weather event, Hurricane Irene, that caused approximately 5.7 million customer power outages along the Eastern Seaboard in August of 2011. The objective was to describe the geographic differences in the grid s vulnerability to these events. Individual factors, such as wind speed or precipitation, were correlated with the number of outages to determine the greatest mechanism of power failure in hopes of strengthening the future power grid. The resulting fragility maps not only depicted 18 counties that were less robust than the design-standard robustness model and three counties that were more robust, but also drew new damage contours with correlated wind speeds and county features.
- Authors:
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- ORNL
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1055548
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2012/574
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- Persistent Availability; Power Grid security and Resilience
Citation Formats
Walker, Kimberly A, Weigand, Gilbert G, and Fernandez, Steven J. Eastern Seaboard Electric Grid Fragility Maps Supporting Persistent Availability. United States: N. p., 2012.
Web. doi:10.2172/1055548.
Walker, Kimberly A, Weigand, Gilbert G, & Fernandez, Steven J. Eastern Seaboard Electric Grid Fragility Maps Supporting Persistent Availability. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1055548
Walker, Kimberly A, Weigand, Gilbert G, and Fernandez, Steven J. 2012.
"Eastern Seaboard Electric Grid Fragility Maps Supporting Persistent Availability". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1055548. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1055548.
@article{osti_1055548,
title = {Eastern Seaboard Electric Grid Fragility Maps Supporting Persistent Availability},
author = {Walker, Kimberly A and Weigand, Gilbert G and Fernandez, Steven J},
abstractNote = {Persistently available power transmission can be disrupted by weather causing power outages with economic and social consequences. This research investigated the effects on the national power grid from a specific weather event, Hurricane Irene, that caused approximately 5.7 million customer power outages along the Eastern Seaboard in August of 2011. The objective was to describe the geographic differences in the grid s vulnerability to these events. Individual factors, such as wind speed or precipitation, were correlated with the number of outages to determine the greatest mechanism of power failure in hopes of strengthening the future power grid. The resulting fragility maps not only depicted 18 counties that were less robust than the design-standard robustness model and three counties that were more robust, but also drew new damage contours with correlated wind speeds and county features.},
doi = {10.2172/1055548},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1055548},
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year = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
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