Strengthening Power System Resilience to Extreme Weather Events Through Grid Enhancing Technologies

TL;DR

This paper reviews how Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) can improve power system resilience against extreme weather events caused by climate change, focusing on optimization, automation, and integration of renewable energy.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of recent literature on GETs and demonstrates their crucial role in enhancing grid resilience amid climate-induced challenges.

Findings

GETs optimize energy distribution during extreme events

GETs enable predictive maintenance and automation

GETs facilitate renewable energy integration

Abstract

Climate change significantly increases risks to power systems, exacerbating issues such as aging infrastructure, evolving regulations, cybersecurity threats, and fluctuating demand. This paper focuses on the utilization of Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) to strengthen power system resilience in the face of extreme weather events. GETs are pivotal in optimizing energy distribution, enabling predictive maintenance, ensuring reliable electricity supply, facilitating renewable energy integration, and automating responses to power instabilities and outages. Drawing insights from resilience theory, the paper reviews recent grid resilience literature, highlighting increasing vulnerabilities due to severe weather events. It demonstrates how GETs are crucial in optimizing smart grid operations, thereby not only mitigating climate-related impacts but also promoting industrial transformation. Keywords: Climate change, power systems, grid enhancing technologies (GETs), power system resilience, extreme weather