Session 1 Grid Operations and Energy Weather/Energy Resiliency: Extreme Weather and Climate Events I

Monday, 29 January 2024: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
347/348 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy

Papers:
8:30 AM
1.1
Extreme Weather and Natural Hazard Impacts to Grid Operations: A Focus On Utility-Scale Solar
Nicole Jackson, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM; and T. Gunda, S. Dhulipala, and S. Awara

8:45 AM
1.2
Simulation of Power Grid Outages from Historical Landfalling Hurricanes in the Northeast United States
Xinxuan Zhang, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and P. Patlakas, E. Anagnoustou, S. Emmanouil, D. Cerrai, and I. Chaniotis

9:00 AM
1.3
Enhancing Resilience of Transmission Power Towers in Hurricane-Prone Regions: Integrating Turbulence and Complex Terrain Effects
Juan P Montoya-Rincon, City College of New York, New York, NY; and R. Quiah and J. E. González-Cruz

9:15 AM
1.4
StormImpact’s Hurricane Outage Prediction Model
Steven M. Quiring, StormImpact Inc., Dublin, OH; and D. B. McRoberts

9:30 AM
1.5
Improving Winter Power Outage Forecasts with a Snow Index
Brian C. Filipiak, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and D. Cerrai and M. Astitha

Handout (703.5 kB)

9:45 AM
1.6
Evaluation of Alternate Methods of Forecasting Meteorological Parameters for Input into an Electric Utility Outage Prediction Model (OPM)
John W. Zack, Ph.D., MESO, Inc., Troy, NY; and J. M. Freedman, E. Anagnoustou, D. Cerrai, K. Udeh, D. Lucia, BS, MA, MSc, and J. Woodcock

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