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Shedding light on the economic costs of long-duration power outages: A review of resilience assessment methods and strategies

Publication Type

Journal Article

Date Published

05/2023

Authors

Macmillan, Madeline, Kyle Wilson, Sunhee Baik, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Anamika Dubey, Christine A. Holland

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103055(link is external)

Abstract

This paper provides a literature review of methods and modeling techniques to estimate the cost of power system outages, along with the value of outage mitigation or system resilience. Regulators, policymakers, and infrastructure owners have a growing need to understand the methods for estimating the benefits of resilience improvements of electric infrastructure against natural and man-made disasters. There is a broad literature that estimates the cost of short-duration outages and a small but developing literature on estimating the cost of long-duration outages. This article reviews the models used to estimate the cost of outages and discusses their relative strengths. Additionally, this paper identifies key questions from stakeholders regarding resilience investment and maps them to the relevant models that would help answer them. We include recommendations for future work to include recent advances in regional economic modeling that can estimate region and demographic-specific costs and the distributional consequences of potential resilience projects.

Journal

Energy Research & Social Science

Volume

99

Year of Publication

2023

URL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629623001159(link is external)

Notes

This is a preprint version of an article published in Energy Research & Social Science. 

Organization

Energy Markets and Policy Department, Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division

Research Areas

Value of Reliability, Electricity Reliability, Electricity Markets and Policy, Cost of Power Interruptions, Economic and Social Valuation, Economic Value of Reliability & Resilience

Related Files

Preprint Journal Article PDF (1.05 MB) (link is external)

        

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