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Stronger Power: Improving Power Sector Resilience to Natural Hazards

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dc.contributor.authorNicolas, Claire
dc.contributor.authorRentschler, Jun
dc.contributor.authorPotter van Loon, Albertine
dc.contributor.authorOguah, Sam
dc.contributor.authorSchweikert, Amy
dc.contributor.authorDeinert, Mark
dc.contributor.authorKoks, Elco
dc.contributor.authorArderne, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorCubas, Diana
dc.contributor.authorLi, Jie
dc.contributor.authorIchikawa, Eriko
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-19T20:31:41Z
dc.date.available2019-06-19T20:31:41Z
dc.date.issued2019-06
dc.description.abstractThe power sector is both highly vulnerable to natural hazards and a priority for any country'srecovery and reconstruction. After Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017, most of the power gridwas down. One year and tens of billions of dollars later some customers were yet to be reconnected to the main grid. This type of long and widespread power outage has major consequences on people's health and well-being, for instance through lacking access to refrigeration for food and medicine, and on the ability of firms to produce and provide people with goods, services, jobs, and income. In most countries, the power system is designed to cope with high-frequency but relatively low impact events. Low-frequency, high-impact events – such as many natural disasters – are rarely considered fully, and the implementation of planned management measures is often patchy. Furthermore, the power system is a special kind of infrastructure due to the heterogeneity of the generation assets and its wide spatial distribution. The latter means that power systems are often exposed to natural hazards and sometimes to more than one hazard, leading to high repair costs when disasters strike. This paper, prepared as a sectoral note for the Lifelines report on infrastructure resilience, investigates the vulnerability of the power system to natural hazards and climate change, and provides recommendations to increase its resilience. It first describes how power outages are often the consequence of natural disasters and outlines the main vulnerabilities of the power sector. It then proposes a range of approaches and solutions for building a more resilient power sector – from increased robustness to greater flexibility – showing that the additional cost of resilience is not high if resources are well spent. Finally, it describes how emergency preparedness and disaster recovery encompass not only technical aspects, like asset strengthening or criticality analysis, but also "softer" skills, like governance, regulatory or capacity building, and education.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/200771560790885170/Stronger-Power-Improving-Power-Sector-Resilience-to-Natural-Hazards
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/31910
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/31910
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBackground paper for Lifelines;
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectPOWER SECTOR
dc.subjectENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectNATURAL DISASTER
dc.subjectDISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectTHERMAL POWER
dc.subjectNUCLEAR POWER
dc.subjectHYDROPOWER
dc.subjectENERGY TRANSMISSION
dc.subjectPOWER GRID
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectRESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectDISASTER PREPAREDNESS
dc.titleStronger Poweren
dc.title.subtitleImproving Power Sector Resilience to Natural Hazardsen
dc.typeReporten
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okr.associatedcontenthttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/31805 Lifelines main publicationen
okr.crossref.titleStronger Power
okr.date.disclosure2019-06-19
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Other Infrastructure Study
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/200771560790885170/Stronger-Power-Improving-Power-Sector-Resilience-to-Natural-Hazards
okr.guid200771560790885170
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/31910
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b086dc4657_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum31166729
okr.identifier.report137912
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/200771560790885170/pdf/Stronger-Power-Improving-Power-Sector-Resilience-to-Natural-Hazards.pdfen
okr.topicEnergy::Energy and Environment
okr.topicEnergy::Hydro Power
okr.topicEnergy::Power & Energy Conversion
okr.topicEnergy::Renewable Energy
okr.topicEnergy::Thermal Energy
okr.topicEnvironment::Climate Change and Environment
okr.topicEnvironment::Natural Disasters
okr.topicInfrastructure Economics and Finance::Infrastructure Economics
okr.unitClimate Change-D1-GFDRR-IBRD (GFDRR)
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