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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rachunok, Benjamin
• Nateghi, Roshanak

Titel

The sensitivity of electric power infrastructure resilience to the spatial distribution of disaster impacts

Ist Teil von

• Reliability engineering & system safety, 2020-01, Vol.193, p.106658, Article 106658

Ort / Verlag

Barking: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Access via ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •The spatial distribution of outages in network models influences performance.•Variation in performance measurement is increased with non-random outages.•Properties such as antifragility depend on the spatial distribution of outages. Credibly assessing the resilience of energy infrastructure in the face of natural disasters is a salient concern facing researchers, government officials, and community members. Here, we explore the influence of the spatial distribution of disruptions due to hurricanes and other natural hazards on the resilience of power distribution systems. We find that incorporating information about the spatial distribution of disaster impacts has significant implications for estimating infrastructure resilience. Specifically, the uncertainty associated with estimated infrastructure resilience metrics to spatially distributed disaster-induced disruptions is much higher than determined by previous methods. We present a case study of an electric power distribution grid impacted by a major landfalling hurricane. We show that improved characterizations of disaster disruption drastically change the way in which the grid recovers, including changes in emergent system properties such as antifragility. Our work demonstrates that previous methods for estimating critical infrastructure resilience may be overstating the confidence associated with estimated network recoveries due to the lack of consideration of the spatial structure of disruptions.