Spatial power outage estimation for natural hazards leveraging optimal synthetic power networks
AssigneeThe Regents of the University of Michigan
InventorsSeth David Guikema, Chengwei Zhai, Anna White, Thomas Ying-Jeh Chen
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Abstract
The following relates generally to calculating estimated power outages during a natural disaster event. In this regard, some embodiments create a synthetic network of a power infrastructure of a geographic area by: determining a location of a power substation; determining a location of a customer; determining a location of a power line linking the power substation to the customer; and determining if the power line is overhead or underground. Some embodiments then use the created synthetic network to simulate an event to calculate the estimated power outages during the event.
Claims20
A computer system for calculating estimated power outages, the computer system comprising one or more processors configured to:
- create a synthetic network of a power infrastructure of a geographic area by:
- determining a location of a power substation;
- determining a location of a customer;
- determining a location of a power line linking the power substation to the customer;
- and
- determining whether the power line is overhead or underground;
- and
- simulate an event to calculate the estimated power outages during the event, wherein the calculation of the estimated power outages is based on the determination of whether the power line is overhead or underground.
A computer-implemented method for calculating estimated power outages, the method comprising:
- creating a synthetic network of a power infrastructure of a geographic area by:
- determining a location of a power substation;
- determining a location of a customer;
- determining a location of a power line linking the power substation to the customer;
- and
- determining that the power line is underground;
- and
- simulating an event to calculate the estimated power outages during the event, wherein the calculation of the estimated power outages is based on the determination that the power line is underground.
A computer system for calculating estimated power outages, the computer system comprising one or more processors configured to:
- create a synthetic network of a power infrastructure of a geographic area by creating a plurality of clusters, wherein each cluster of the plurality of clusters includes a substation and a plurality of buildings, and wherein each cluster is:
- (i) created based on a network distance from a building of the plurality of buildings of the cluster to the substation of the cluster, and (ii) not based on a Euclidian distance from the building of the plurality of buildings of the cluster to the substation of the cluster;
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- simulate an event to calculate the estimated power outages during the event, wherein the calculation of the estimated power outages is based on the created synthetic network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.