Disparities in disruptions to public drinking water services in Texas communities during Winter Storm Uri 2021

B Tomko, CL Nittrouer, X Sanchez-Vila, AH Sawyer - PLoS Water, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Winter Storm Uri of February 2021 left millions of United States residents without access to
reliable, clean domestic water during the COVID19 pandemic. In the state of Texas, over 17 …

Leveraging water utility customer reporting for resilient operations and management

HR Tiedmann, L Sela, KK Stephens… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Water utilities collect information from various sources to gain continuous insights into the
state of drinking water systems. Among the available data types, service problems that …

Traits impacting water crisis management

K Yasmeen, K Yasmin, M Adnan - Discover Water, 2024 - Springer
Water scarcity and its geopolitical implications have been a cornerstone of scholarly
discourse. However, literature often overlooks the nuanced relationship between human …

Looking beyond individual failures: A system-wide assessment of water infrastructure resilience to extreme events

HR Tiedmann, KM Faust, L Sela - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
Water infrastructure systems throughout the United States face compounding challenges
due to aging infrastructure and increasingly extreme and more frequent weather events …

Understanding the disparate impacts of the 2021 Texas winter storm and power outages through mobile phone location data and nighttime light images

RZ Zhou, Y Hu, L Zou, H Cai, B Zhou - International Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Winter Storm Uri slammed Texas between February 13–17, 2021 and caused
widespread power outages. Understanding the impacts of this catastrophic event on local …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing power system resilience to extreme weather events: A qualitative assessment of winter storm Uri

J Potts, HR Tiedmann, KK Stephens, KM Faust… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract In February 2021, Winter Storm Uri left 11 million people in Texas without power,
caused widespread water outages, and inflicted billions of dollars in damage. While the …

Community resilience in a cascading disaster: enacting a hybrid hyperlocal community of practices (HCoPs) through online/offline communication

J Sun, KK Stephens, T Tasuji, K Faust… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
When multiple types of disasters occur sequentially–a cascading disaster–certain adaptive
capacities might become temporarily ineffective or invalid. Advancing an understanding of …

Equitable Coordination in Multi-agent Power Systems: Impacts of Computation Granularity

Y Du, J Mohammadi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.12190, 2023 - arxiv.org
The growing integration of distributed energy resources drives the centralized power system
towards a decentralized multi-agent network. Operating multi-agent networks significantly …

Virtual Power Plants and Energy Justice

B Speetles, E Lockhart, A Warren - 2023 - osti.gov
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) Order 2222, issued in September
2020, removes barriers for distributed energy resources (DERs) to participate in wholesale …

Incorporating Energy Justice and Equity into Power System Models: A Review of Current Practices and Paths Forward

T Goforth, T Levin, D Nock - Available at SSRN 4591242, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Ensuring an equitable energy transition requires models and tools that can account for
equity and energy justice goals. Power system models (PSMs) are widely used throughout …