Resilience and Critical Power System Infrastructure : Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Future Research Needs

Resilience against infrastructure failure is essential for ensuring the health and safety of communities during and following natural hazard situations. Understanding how natural hazards impact society in terms of economic cost, recovery time, and...

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Main Authors:	Schweikert, Amy, Nield, Lindsey, Otto, Erica, Deinert, Mark
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL HAZARDS SUPPLY CHAIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT ENERGY TRANSMISSION ENERGY GENERATION ELECTRICITY GRID
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/245911560800329681/Resilience-and-Critical-Power-System-Infrastructure-Lessons-Learned-from-Natural-Disasters-and-Future-Research-Needs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31920

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spelling	okr-10986-319202022-09-20T00:14:03Z Resilience and Critical Power System Infrastructure : Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Future Research Needs Schweikert, Amy Nield, Lindsey Otto, Erica Deinert, Mark CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL HAZARDS SUPPLY CHAIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT ENERGY TRANSMISSION ENERGY GENERATION ELECTRICITY GRID Resilience against infrastructure failure is essential for ensuring the health and safety of communities during and following natural hazard situations. Understanding how natural hazards impact society in terms of economic cost, recovery time, and damages to critical infrastructure is essential for developing robust approaches to increasing resilience. Identifying specific vulnerabilities allows for better communication, planning, and situation-specific interventions. This is particularly relevant in areas recovering from a natural hazard that have the opportunity to build back their infrastructure, and for those currently planning infrastructure expansions. This study considers recent hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts, heat waves, extreme wind and rainfall events, ice and thunder storms as well as wildfires. For many of these, data are available for the same type of hazard in different geographies which provides information not only on specific vulnerabilities, but whether the impacts are location dependent. Where available, specific design considerations, cost information for repairs, and the recommendations for 'building back better' are presented. Above-ground transmission systems were the most commonly affected power system component, with fuel and maintenance supply chains representing a major vulnerability for isolated regions and islands. Generation systems were most commonly affected when a hazard exceeded design limits, particularly in relation to water temperature or wind speeds. Institutional capabilities are important throughout the sector. In all case studies analyzed, the design standards of the infrastructure asset, and the ongoing maintenance of assets and the organized response (or lack of) has major implications for the performance of the electricity grid. 2019-06-20T15:47:47Z 2019-06-20T15:47:47Z 2019-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/245911560800329681/Resilience-and-Critical-Power-System-Infrastructure-Lessons-Learned-from-Natural-Disasters-and-Future-Research-Needs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31920 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8900 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic	CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL HAZARDS SUPPLY CHAIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT ENERGY TRANSMISSION ENERGY GENERATION ELECTRICITY GRID
spellingShingle	CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL HAZARDS SUPPLY CHAIN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT ENERGY TRANSMISSION ENERGY GENERATION ELECTRICITY GRID Schweikert, Amy Nield, Lindsey Otto, Erica Deinert, Mark Resilience and Critical Power System Infrastructure : Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Future Research Needs
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description	Resilience against infrastructure failure is essential for ensuring the health and safety of communities during and following natural hazard situations. Understanding how natural hazards impact society in terms of economic cost, recovery time, and damages to critical infrastructure is essential for developing robust approaches to increasing resilience. Identifying specific vulnerabilities allows for better communication, planning, and situation-specific interventions. This is particularly relevant in areas recovering from a natural hazard that have the opportunity to build back their infrastructure, and for those currently planning infrastructure expansions. This study considers recent hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts, heat waves, extreme wind and rainfall events, ice and thunder storms as well as wildfires. For many of these, data are available for the same type of hazard in different geographies which provides information not only on specific vulnerabilities, but whether the impacts are location dependent. Where available, specific design considerations, cost information for repairs, and the recommendations for 'building back better' are presented. Above-ground transmission systems were the most commonly affected power system component, with fuel and maintenance supply chains representing a major vulnerability for isolated regions and islands. Generation systems were most commonly affected when a hazard exceeded design limits, particularly in relation to water temperature or wind speeds. Institutional capabilities are important throughout the sector. In all case studies analyzed, the design standards of the infrastructure asset, and the ongoing maintenance of assets and the organized response (or lack of) has major implications for the performance of the electricity grid.
format	Working Paper
author	Schweikert, Amy Nield, Lindsey Otto, Erica Deinert, Mark
author_facet	Schweikert, Amy Nield, Lindsey Otto, Erica Deinert, Mark
author_sort	Schweikert, Amy
title	Resilience and Critical Power System Infrastructure : Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Future Research Needs
title_short	Resilience and Critical Power System Infrastructure : Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Future Research Needs
title_full	Resilience and Critical Power System Infrastructure : Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Future Research Needs
title_fullStr	Resilience and Critical Power System Infrastructure : Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Future Research Needs
title_full_unstemmed	Resilience and Critical Power System Infrastructure : Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Future Research Needs
title_sort	resilience and critical power system infrastructure : lessons learned from natural disasters and future research needs
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/245911560800329681/Resilience-and-Critical-Power-System-Infrastructure-Lessons-Learned-from-Natural-Disasters-and-Future-Research-Needs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31920
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