Linking hazards to power outages
Reconstructing past events and predicting future outages by connecting weather hazards with electric infrastructure.
Weather hazards
Infrastructure · roads
Observed outages
Hurricanes, Power Outages,
Infrastructure & Energy Development.
I study how weather and climate shape power-system risks and what comes next.
Research questions
How long until power returns?
Modeling power outage recovery following severe weather impacts.
How do changing tropical cyclones affect outages?
Linking changes in tropical-cyclone climatology to changes in outage rates.
Ongoing research with Siemens.
Tropical-cyclone changes
How do storm frequency, intensity and tracks change?
Outage rates
How do those changes translate into more or fewer outages?
What drives the change?
Separate changing storm climatology from exposure and infrastructure.
Where should future energy be developed, and how can policy shape adoption?
How weather and climate shape energy development, and how policies such as subsidies influence households’ willingness to adopt battery storage.