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Research on Resilience of Power Systems Under Natural Disasters—A Review

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems · 2015 · Vol. 31(2) · pp. 1604–1613

Yezhou Wang✉(The University of Texas at Austin)Chen Chen(Argonne National Laboratory)Jianhui Wang(Argonne National Laboratory)Ross Baldick(The University of Texas at Austin)

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Abstract

Natural disasters can cause large blackouts. Research into natural disaster impacts on electric power systems is emerging to understand the causes of the blackouts, explore ways to prepare and harden the grid, and increase the resilience of the power grid under such events. At the same time, new technologies such as smart grid, micro grid, and wide area monitoring applications could increase situational awareness as well as enable faster restoration of the system. This paper aims to consolidate and review the progress of the research field towards methods and tools of forecasting natural disaster related power system disturbances, hardening and pre-storm operations, and restoration models. Challenges and future research opportunities are also presented in the paper.

Power System Optimization and Stability Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis Smart Grid Security and ResilienceNatural disasterElectric power systemResilience (materials science)Situation awarenessSmart gridComputer scienceRisk analysis (engineering)GridField (mathematics)Power grid