Toward Equitable Power Infrastructure Resilience
Toward Equitable Power Infrastructure Resilience
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
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This NSF-funded project focuses on advancing power grid and disaster resilience with a commitment to equity. By addressing the unique challenges faced by disadvantaged communities, the research integrates equity considerations into power outage impact assessments and grid hardening policies.
Using an equity-risk-aware optimization approach, the project aims to reduce socio-economic disparities caused by extreme weather events. Key innovations include the introduction of the "equity value at risk" concept and computationally efficient solutions to support practical implementation by decision-makers.
This work enhances our understanding of community hardships during power outages and provides actionable strategies to promote equitable and resilient power infrastructure.
Principle Investigators
Principle Investigators
Amin Kargarian
Frederic Weil (LSU Sociology Department)
Student Researchers
Student Researchers
Fredrica Arthur
Sarah Sanjoh
Farshad Amani
Alumni
Alumni
Mohadese Movahednia
Cheick Bamba
Project Products
Project Products
M. Movahednia, A. Kargarian, "Community-informed Resource Allocation Optimization For Power Grid Resilience Against Flood Hazards", Electric Power Systems Research, 2025.
F. Arthur, F. Amani. A. Kargarian, "Community-Aware Reliability Metrics for Strategic Battery Storage Placement in Distribution Systems," IEEE Texas Power & Energy Conference (TPEC), 2025.
M. Movahednia, R. Mahroo, A. Kargarian, “Transmission-Distribution Coordination for Enhancing Grid Resiliency Against Flood Hazards,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 5272 - 5282, 2024.
C. Wu, and A. Kargarian, "Computationally Efficient Data-driven Joint Chance Constraints for Power Systems Scheduling," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 38, no. 3, pp. 2858 - 2867, 2023.
M. Movahednia, A. Kargarian, C. Ozdemir, and S. Hagen, “Power Grid Resilience Enhancement via Protecting Electrical Substations Against Flood Hazards: A Stochastic Framework,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 2123 - 2143, 2022.
M. Movahednia, A. Kargarian, “Flood-aware Optimal Power Flow for Proactive Day-ahead Transmission Substation Hardening,” IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference, 2022.
C. Wu, A. Kargarian, H.W. Jeon, “Data-driven Nonparametric Joint Chance Constraints for Economic Dispatch,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 6537 - 6546, 2021.
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