Stormy weather: Assessing climate change hazards to electric power infrastructure: A sandy case study

David Yates, Byron Quan Luna, Roy Rasmussen, Dick Bratcher, Luca Garre, Fei Chen, Mukul Tewari, Peter Friis-Hansen

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Abstract

Power system infrastructure is subject to damage from a wide range of extreme weather events, including hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning storms, snow and ice storms, floods, storm tides, heat waves, droughts, and more (see Figure 1). As climate change occurs, scientists expect extreme events to become even more severe in some locations, resulting in more intense precipitation; longer, hotter heat waves; higher-intensity hurricanes; higher storm tides; more ice storms; and so on.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6878567
Pages (from-to)66-75
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Power and Energy Magazine
Volume12
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

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