Modeling and Evaluating the Resilience of Critical Electrical Power Infrastructure to Extreme Weather Events

Electrical power systems have been traditionally designed to be reliable during normal conditions and abnormal but foreseeable contingencies. However, withstanding unexpected and less frequent severe situations still remains a significant challenge. As a critical infrastructure and in the face of climate change, power systems are more and more expected to be resilient to high-impact low-probability events determined by extreme weather phenomena. However, resilience is an emerging concept, and, as such, it has not yet been adequately explored in spite of its growing interest. On these bases, this paper provides a conceptual framework for gaining insights into the resilience of power systems, with focus on the…

• NU
  Newcastle University
• EA
  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  Awards: EP/I035757/1, EP/I035781/1