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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.more » « lessFree, publicly-accessible full text available September 15, 2026
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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.more » « less
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In response to the expanding role of wind, solar, and storage, increasing demand flexibility, and a changing climate, new analytical methods and metrics to assess resource adequacy are needed. A focus has been on identifying ways to reduce risks of failure. Less attention has been directed to how new analytical approaches can inform the design of planning processes, regulatory standards, and markets. Using mixed methods and a community-engaged approach, data on community preferences and uneven distributions of impacts are used in a demonstration of a coupled socio-technical systems model that has been validated in diverse settings. The research is informed by the physical and institutional infrastructures in the Railbelt power grid of Alaska. The findings illustrate how new analytical tools can inform institutional design and facilitate more affordable, sustainable, and equitable outcomes.more » « less
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