Reducing the vulnerability of electric power infrastructure against natural disasters by promoting distributed generation

GG Ali, IH El-adaway, C Sims, JS Holladay… - Natural Hazards …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
… to reduce the vulnerability of the electric power grid against … power generation that can help
reduce the vulnerability of the … reducing the vulnerability of the electric power infrastructure by …

Energy inequality and clientelism in the wake of disasters: From colorblind to affirmative power restoration

F Tormos-Aponte, G García-López, MA Painter - Energy Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
… Puerto Rico's power grid led to a complete power outage, leaving … This study examines how
community socioeconomic and … the effect of a socioeconomic vulnerability index and ruling …

Using environmental justice to inform disaster recovery: Vulnerability and electricity restoration in Puerto Rico

M Sotolongo, L Kuhl, SH Baker - Environmental Science & Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
… to analyze how well three vulnerability indices based on … seeking to mitigate vulnerability to
electricity outages in the wake of … with socioeconomic vulnerability is increasingly necessary. …

Hurricane and Storm Surges-Induced Power System Vulnerabilities and their Socioeconomic Impact

A Poudyal, S Lamichhane, C Wertz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
… In this work, we assess the power system’s vulnerability as the vulnerability of the branches
… have higher socioeconomic vulnerability exacerbated by the outage vulnerability. Hence, …

Equitable resilience in infrastructure systems: Empirical assessment of disparities in hardship experiences of vulnerable populations during service disruptions

N Coleman, A Esmalian, A Mostafavi - Natural Hazards Review, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
… characteristics considered specifically include: socioeconomic status, which refers to the
income … vulnerable populations are less likely to take protective actions for the power outages. …

Behavioural and psychological responses of the public during a major power outage: A literature review

GJ Rubin, MB Rogers - International journal of disaster risk reduction, 2019 - Elsevier
Vulnerable sections of the population can also be identified … home are another vulnerable
group during a power outage. For … be partly a product of socio-economic status, with those who …

Examining spatial and socioeconomic disparities in internet resilience during extreme weather events: a case study of Hurricane Harvey and Winter Storm Uri

Y Gupta, Z Liu, A Mostafavi - Urban Informatics, 2024 - Springer
… of disasters have exposed the vulnerabilities in our critical … Power outage: The magnitude
of power outages during these … 2021, and the power outage used as a measurement of the …

Impact of power interruption on buildings and neighborhoods and potential technical and design adaptation methods

C Hachem-Vermette, S Yadav - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
… on households’ daily practices; (2) discussing various technologies for mitigating some of
these impacts and reducing vulnerability during outages; (3) analyzing the role of building and …

Community-scale big data reveals disparate impacts of the Texas winter storm of 2021 and its managed power outage

CC Lee, M Maron, A Mostafavi - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2022 - nature.com
… of managed power outages on vulnerable subpopulations in … patterns of impacts on vulnerable
subpopulations in Harris … All demographic and household socioeconomic data used in …

Equitable community resilience: the case of winter storm Uri in Texas

A Nejat, L Solitare, E Pettitt… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
… 3c) which turned out to corroborate the importance of race and socioeconomic status as well…
that the neighborhoods that had power outage were disproportionally vulnerable. They had …