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This paper develops a comprehensive framework to analyze the impact of energy storage on improving the resilience of distribution systems against hurricanes. This paper first develops a spatio-temporal model of progressing hurricane when making landfall that can be used to anticipate outage scenarios caused by the gust-wind speed. An optimization model is then developed for optimizing the operation of distribution systems during hurricane that captures both pre-outage and post-outage network operation constraints. Numerical simulations are performed on the modified IEEE 33-bus distribution system with real hurricane data in Houston to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model.

Managing the risk of wildfires has been arguably the biggest recent challenge of electric utilities with infrastructure located in the wildland-urban interface. Utilities are deploying solutions for wildfire risk mitigation, such as public safety power shutoffs, which is counter-intuitive from a reliabilitycentric operation paradigm. This paper presents an overview of the challenges, implications, and potential strategies for wildfire risk mitigation in power systems, and introduces the vision for a wildfire-resilient power system. The wildfire risk management strategies presented in this paper range from fault prevention methods such as structural hardening, vegetation management and implementing advanced protection systems, to arc-suppression and ignition prevention methods. This paper also identifies relevant research opportunities associated with implementing wildfire mitigation techniques on power systems.

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