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As electric power grid critical infrastructure grows increasingly heterogeneous, a key question is how to encourage and ensure relatively equitable access to the energy it supplies. With diverse socio-economic regions linked to the grid and various generation types, achieving equitable access to clean energy, as outlined in initiatives like DOE’s Justice40, remains an important aspirational goal. Building on previous work, this paper describes our investigation of a heterogenous grid modeled on the Alaska Railbelt, allowing us to explore the intrinsic inequities and possible mechanisms to enhance the equity across regions. We apply risk and equity metrics to different regions to examine how penalties which change the cost can impact the equity as well as the overall grid’s risk and dynamics.
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Utilizing regulation to improve risk and equity in heterogeneous transmission grids
As electric power grid critical infrastructure grows increasingly heterogeneous, a key question is how to encourage and ensure relatively equitable access to the energy it supplies. With diverse socio-economic regions linked to the grid and various generation types, achieving equitable access to clean energy, as outlined in initiatives like DOE’s Justice40, remains an important aspirational goal. Building on previous work, this paper describes our investigation of a heterogenous grid modeled on the Alaska Railbelt, allowing us to explore the intrinsic inequities and possible mechanisms to enhance the equity across regions. We apply risk and equity metrics to different regions to examine how penalties which change the cost can impact the equity as well as the overall grid’s risk and dynamics.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2228697
- PAR ID:
- 10561711
- Publisher / Repository:
- Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2025
- Date Published:
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- Equity resource adequacy risk metrics socio-techncial coupled modeling uncertainty
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- https://hdl.handle.net/10125/109837
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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