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A multi criteria electrical load prioritization framework to minimize impacts to the society: A case study based on Garden City, Kansas
Shanthanam, Sangar
Shanthanam, Sangar
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Shanthanam, Sangar
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Aravinthan, Visvakumar
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2025-03-25
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Extreme weather events,Power outages,Electrical load prioritization,Social impacts,Economic impacts,Kansas,TOPSIS
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Extreme weather events such as winter storms cause major power outages. These power outages create social and economic impacts on society. For instance, severe weather events caused a major power outage in July 2024 and more than 100,000 Kansans lost power. It was estimated by the Department of Energy power outages cost approximately $150 billion annually. Various grid resilience enhancement techniques have been proposed by researchers. However, these techniques require very high investment and still the protection from such extreme events is beyond human control. Prioritizing electrical load points can help planners to wisely allocate resources, especially during emergency times, to minimize social and economic impacts. Traditionally prioritization considers only technical factors and often neglects the social and economic factors. In this work, modified TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference Similarity to Ideal) based Multi Criteria Decision Framework is proposed which considers several criteria and takes inputs from policy makers and stake holders to effectively prioritize electrical loads. The proposed method was evaluated using a case study. Where a test system was developed based on garden city, Kansas and CLARC (Customizable Artificial Community) system data. An extreme event was simulated, and the performance was recorded. The proposed method minimizes the impacts on the population, without any significant economic loss, to less than 12% compared to conventional methods over 33%. Therefore, this method can benefit the Kansans since Kansas also experiences from time-to-time major power outages and the frequency of such outages are expected to be high in the future.
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Poster project completed at Wichita State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Presented at the 22nd Annual Capitol Graduate Research Summit, Topeka, KS, March 25, 2025.
Presented at the 22nd Annual Capitol Graduate Research Summit, Topeka, KS, March 25, 2025.
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Wichita State University