Towards Using Utility Data to Quantify How Investments Would Have Increased the Wind Resilience of Distribution Systems
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2023-12-13
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Ahmad, Arslan
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We quantify resilience with metrics extracted from the historical outage data that is routinely recorded by many distribution utilities. The outage data is coordinated with wind data to relate average outage rates in an area to wind speed measured at a nearby weather station. A past investment in wind hardening would have reduced the outage rates, and the effect of this on metrics can be calculated by sampling a reduced number of historical outages and recomputing the metrics. This quantifies the impact that the hardening would have had on customers. This is a tangible way to relate an investment in wind resilience to the benefits it would have had on the lived experience of customers that could help make the case for the investment to the public and regulators. We also quantify the impact of earlier or faster restoration on customer metrics and compare this to the impact of investment in hardening. Overall, this is a new and straightforward approach to quantify resilience and justify resilience investments to stakeholders that is directly driven by utility data. The approach driven by data avoids complicated models or modeling assumptions.
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Towards using utility data to quantify how investments would have increased the wind resilience of distribution systems
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We quantify resilience with metrics extracted from the historical outage data that is routinely recorded by many distribution utilities. The outage data is coordinated with wind data to relate average outage rates in an area to wind speed measured at a nearby weather station. A past investment in wind hardening would have reduced the outage rates, and the effect of this on metrics can be calculated by sampling a reduced number of the historical outages and recomputing the metrics. This quantifies the impact that the hardening would have had on customers. This is a tangible way to relate an investment in wind resilience to the benefits it would have had on the lived experience of customers that could help make the case for the investment to the public and regulators. We also quantify the impact of earlier or faster restoration on customer metrics and compare this to the impact of investment in hardening. Overall this is a new and straightforward approach to quantify resilience and justify resilience investments to stakeholders that is directly driven by utility data. The approach driven by data avoids complicated models or modeling assumptions.
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This article is published as Ahmad, Arslan, and Ian Dobson. "Towards using utility data to quantify how investments would have increased the wind resilience of distribution systems." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2023.3342729.
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