Campus Units
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Document Type
Article
Conference
54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Publication Version
Published Version
Link to Published Version
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/71021
Publication Date
2021
Journal or Book Title
Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
First Page
3340
Last Page
3349
Conference Title
54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Conference Date
January 5-8, 2021
Abstract
Cordova is a town of approximately 2,000 people located on the southern coast of Alaska. A power grid for a town this size, with a large seasonal fishing economy, is considered a moderate to large sized microgrid in terms of power produced. Understanding the vulnerabilities and risks of failures in such a grid is important for planning and operations. Investigating these characteristics in the context of complex system dynamics is a novel approach. The analysis of Cordova’s microgrid is a case study relevant to a large class of microgrid communities. We analyze the outage data based on size, cause characteristics and load demand on the system and find long time correlations and power laws in the failure size distributions. Finally we apply a risk metric to give a single numerical value to the risk of an outage occurring during certain time periods and under certain conditions.
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Copyright Owner
The Author(s)
Copyright Date
2021
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Lipetzky, Anna; Newman, D. E.; Carreras, B. A.; Huang, Daisy; Dobson, Ian; and Koplin, Clay, "Characteristics and Risk of Microgrid Outages from a Complex Systems Point of View" (2021). Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference Papers, Posters and Presentations. 110.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ece_conf/110
Comments
This proceeding is published as Bowker, Anna, David Newman, Benjamin Carreras, Daisy Huang, Ian Dobson, and Clay Koplin. "Characteristics and Risk of Microgrid Outages from a Complex Systems Point of View." In Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2021): 3340-3349. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/71021. Posted with permission.