Toward Equitable Power Infrastructure Resilience

实现公平的电力基础设施弹性

• 批准号: 2242643
• 负责人: Amin Kargarian Marvasti
• 金额: $ 36.39万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2242643&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Toward; Equitable; Power; Infrastructure; Resilience

This Disaster Resilience Research Grant (DRRG) project models power grid resilience equity by considering the hardships faced by different communities and integrating these hardships into the protection of power infrastructure against flood-induced hazards. The project focuses on proactively safeguarding power substations against flooding, taking into account the social consequences of power outages. By doing so, this project brings transformative change for approaches to solving policy-making problems in power systems. The intellectual merits of the project include advancing the understanding of power outages in diverse communities and developing equity-aware optimization approaches for planning actions conducted by utility companies. The broader impacts of the project include contributing to the definition and integration of equity considerations in power grid planning, benefiting the nation as a whole, but with a focus on New Orleans, a region on the front lines of climate change with diverse populations and disparities in wealth and infrastructure distribution. Additionally, the project includes multiple educational and outreach activities aimed at promoting equity and encouraging the participation of underserved and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) students in STEM fields.This project makes valuable contributions to the fields of power grid and disaster resilience. It integrates the hardships experienced across all communities, including the disadvantaged, into the assessment of power outage impacts and incorporates equity considerations into power grid hardening policies. By adopting an equity-risk-aware optimization approach, the project aims to minimize inequitable socio-economic impacts of extreme weather events. This Disaster Resilience Research grant project provides a better understanding of differential community hardships resulting from power outages and develop innovative concepts such as equity value at risk to mitigate the impact of power grid failures. Computationally efficient solution approaches can facilitate the adoption of equity-risk-aware optimization by decision-makers, ensuring the practicality and applicability of the research findings.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该抗灾研究补助金（DRRG）项目通过考虑不同社区面临的困难并将这些困难纳入电力基础设施免受洪水灾害的保护中，对电网复原力公平性进行建模。该项目的重点是主动保护变电站免受洪水侵袭，同时考虑到停电的社会后果。通过这样做，该项目为解决电力系统决策问题的方法带来了变革。该项目的智力优点包括增进对不同社区停电的理解，并为公用事业公司的规划行动开发具有公平意识的优化方法。该项目的更广泛影响包括促进电网规划中公平考虑因素的定义和整合，使整个国家受益，但重点关注新奥尔良，该地区处于气候变化的前线，人口多样化且存在差异财富和基础设施分配。此外，该项目还包括多项教育和外展活动，旨在促进公平并鼓励服务不足和传统黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 学生参与 STEM 领域。该项目为电网和抗灾能力领域做出了宝贵贡献。它将包括弱势群体在内的所有社区经历的困难纳入停电影响评估中，并将公平考虑纳入电网加固政策中。通过采用公平风险意识优化方法，该项目旨在最大限度地减少极端天气事件对社会经济的不公平影响。该抗灾研究资助项目让人们更好地了解停电造成的不同社区困难，并开发创新概念，例如风险股权价值，以减轻电网故障的影响。计算高效的解决方案可以促进决策者采用股权风险意识优化，确保研究结果的实用性和适用性。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过利用基金会的智力优势进行评估，认为值得支持以及更广泛的影响审查标准。