Reliability & Resilience

Reliability & Resilience

Strengthening the reliability and resilience of the power system

What We Do

EMP supports reliability and resilience decision-making by assessing performance metrics and trends, estimating the costs of power interruptions, valuing the impact of technologies and strategies, and providing technical assistance to key stakeholders.

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Our Approach

EMP’s reliability and resilience team evaluates risk to the power system and other infrastructure from a range of natural hazards. EMP also collects and disseminates information about historical trends in reliability and resilience. In addition, we identify and pioneer new analytical techniques to estimate power disruption costs to customers – and society. EMP uses this and related information to estimate the value of new technologies and strategies to improve reliability and resilience. Finally, we provide targeted technical assistance and trainings to a range of stakeholders, including utilities, regulatory bodies, government agencies, technology providers, academics, and consultants.

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Peter Larsen

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Recent Publications

Larsen, Peter H., Juan Pablo Carvallo, Alan H. Sanstad, Sunhee Baik, Ian Sue Wing, Dan Wei, Adam Rose, Jeremy Smith, Christopher Ramee, and Ridge Peterson."Power Outage Economics Tool: A Prototype for the Commonwealth Edison Service Territory." (2024).

Gorman, Will, Galen L. Barbose, Cesca Miller, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, and Philip White."Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power: Implications of building efficiency, load flexibility, and electrification for backup during long-duration power interruptions." (2023).

Baik, Sunhee, Galen L. Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Will Gorman, and Michael Spears."Backup Power Performance of Solar-plus-Storage Systems during Routine Power Interruptions: A Case Study Application of Berkeley Lab’s PRESTO Model." (2023).

Larsen, Peter H., Lisa C. Schwartz, and Joe Paladino."Resilience Training for the Public Utility Commission of Texas." (2023).

Sparti, Chelsi, Peter H. Larsen, and Tyler Huntington."The Value of Sharing and Consolidating Critical Community, Electricity, and Natural Hazard Information." (2023).

Gorman, Will, Galen L. Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."County-level assessment of behind-the-meter solar and storage to mitigate long duration power interruptions for residential customers."Applied Energy 342 (2023). DOI

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Benjamin D. Leibowicz, Thomas Carr, Sunhee Baik, and Peter H. Larsen."A Guide for Improved Resource Adequacy Assessments in Evolving Power Systems: Institutional and Technical Dimensions." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C., Joe Paladino, Peter H. Larsen, Cecilia Klauber, Tom Short, Scott Sternfeld, and Miguel Heleno."Resilience Training for the Southeast." (2023).

Macmillan, Madeline, Kyle Wilson, Sunhee Baik, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Anamika Dubey, and Christine A. Holland."Shedding light on the economic costs of long-duration power outages: A review of resilience assessment methods and strategies."Energy Research & Social Science 99 (2023). DOI

Gorman, Will, Galen L. Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruptions." (2022).

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Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power: Implications of building efficiency, load flexibility, and electrification for backup during long-duration power interruptions

Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power: Implications of building efficiency, load flexibility, and electrification for backup during long-duration power interruptions

PRESTO! A new tool to aid in analyzing the reliability value of distributed solar-plus-storage

PRESTO! A new tool to aid in analyzing the reliability value of distributed solar-plus-storage

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Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruption

Electricity Reliability Technology Research and Development

Economic Value of Reliability & Resilience

National Reliability Trends

Reliability Performance Data and Metrics

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