TY - GEN
T1 - Impact Study of Thunderstorms on the US Power Grid Using Publicly Available Datasets
AU - Bhusal, Narayan
AU - Lee, Sangkeun Matthew
AU - Stenvig, Nils
AU - Chinthavali, Supriya
AU - Kuruganti, Teja
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 IEEE.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This work analyzes the impact of thunderstorms on the US power grid based on publicly available data. Since thunderstorms can bring lightning, heavy precipitation, and wind storms, analyzing their impact on the power system provides a combined correlation of lightning strikes, floods, and wind storms on power outages. This paper leverages publicly available thunderstorm datasets from the National Weather Service (NWS) and power outage datasets from Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Environment for Analysis of Geo-Located Energy Information (EAGLE-I) to study the correlation between thunderstorms and power outages. This work is analyzing the patterns of thunderstorms from 2013-2022, which shows that the thunderstorms are not slowing down and will seem to continue their impact on human life in the future. This work also analyzes the monthly and yearly pattern of the impact of thunderstorms on power systems at the national, state, and county level.
AB - This work analyzes the impact of thunderstorms on the US power grid based on publicly available data. Since thunderstorms can bring lightning, heavy precipitation, and wind storms, analyzing their impact on the power system provides a combined correlation of lightning strikes, floods, and wind storms on power outages. This paper leverages publicly available thunderstorm datasets from the National Weather Service (NWS) and power outage datasets from Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Environment for Analysis of Geo-Located Energy Information (EAGLE-I) to study the correlation between thunderstorms and power outages. This work is analyzing the patterns of thunderstorms from 2013-2022, which shows that the thunderstorms are not slowing down and will seem to continue their impact on human life in the future. This work also analyzes the monthly and yearly pattern of the impact of thunderstorms on power systems at the national, state, and county level.
KW - EAGLE-I
KW - NWS
KW - power outage
KW - thunderstorm
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85197260207&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TD47997.2024.10556049
DO - 10.1109/TD47997.2024.10556049
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85197260207
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference
BT - 2024 IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, T and D 2024
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2024 IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, T and D 2024
Y2 - 6 May 2024 through 9 May 2024
ER -