Estimating Critical Customer Outages Resulting from Extreme Hurricanes

Narayan Bhusal, Sangkeun Matthew Lee, Avishek Bose, Supriya Chinthavali, Melissa R. Allen-Dumas, Teja Kuruganti

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Abstract

US power outage data has been collected by organizations such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) through Environment for Analysis Geo-Located Energy Infrastructure (EAGLE-I: freely available) and poweroutage.us (commercial data: available to purchase). However, these sources do not provide information specific to outages of critical customers. Critical customers include entities, facilities, and individuals whose continuous access to electricity is essential for public safety, emergency response, disaster recovery, the well-being of vulnerable populations, public safety and order, and public utilities such as natural gas, communications, water and sanitation. Identification and geolocation of critical customers is crucial for understanding and addressing the effects of power outages on essential services and ensuring that necessary measures are taken to maintain their operations during power disruptions. This work is a first step towards estimating the occurrences of critical customer outages and developing a critical customer power outage data repository. This work estimates outage incidents of critical customers through spatiotemporal mapping of power outage data, weather data, building data, and critical infrastructure network data. Our results show that critical customer effects vary across different counties. We provide appropriate mathematical explanations and simplifications to define and systematize the proposed approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2024 Resilience Week, RWS 2024
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798350388985
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event2024 Resilience Week, RWS 2024 - Austin, United States
Duration: Dec 3 2024Dec 5 2024

Publication series

Name2024 Resilience Week, RWS 2024

Conference

Conference2024 Resilience Week, RWS 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period12/3/2412/5/24

Keywords

  • Environment for Analysis of Geo-Located Energy Infrastructure (EAGLE-I)
  • hurricane
  • interdependency analysis (IA)
  • North American Energy Resilience Model (NAERM)
  • power outage
  • USA Structures

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