An Indicator-Based Approach for Analysing the Resilience of Transitions for Energy Regions. Part II: Empirical Application to the Case of Weiz-Gleisdorf, Austria

Wyss, Romano; Mühlemeier, Susan; Binder, Claudia R.

doi:10.3390/en11092263

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“…Moreover, about 10 days after the event, there were still 2.43 million households without electricity and 1.04 million consumers without water [91]. Moreover, the reduction of CO 2 and sustainable development have recently increased the importance of the energy systems transition from traditional systems (e.g., fossil-fuel-based systems) to systems based on renewable energies (e.g., wind turbines) [37,[92][93][94]. Therefore, researchers have paid more attention to energy systems' resilience, especially in countries prone to natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes, ice storms, and earthquakes) or sabotage.…”

Section: In What Type Of Technological Ciss Has the Concept Of Resilience Been Used?mentioning

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The Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

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Risk management is a fundamental approach to improving critical infrastructure systems’ safety against disruptive events. This approach focuses on designing robust critical infrastructure systems (CISs) that could resist disruptive events by minimizing the possible events’ probability and consequences using preventive and protective programs. However, recent disasters like COVID-19 have shown that most CISs cannot stand against all potential disruptions. Recently there is a transition from robust design to resilience design of CISs, increasing the focus on preparedness, response, and recovery. Resilient CISs withstand most of the internal and external shocks, and if they fail, they can bounce back to the operational phase as soon as possible using minimum resources. Moreover, in resilient CISs, early warning enables managers to get timely information about the proximity and development of distributions. An understanding of the concept of resilience, its influential factors, and available evaluation and analyzing tools are required to have effective resilience management. Moreover, it is important to highlight the current gaps. Technological resilience is a new concept associated with some ambiguity around its definition, its terms, and its applications. Hence, using the concept of resilience without understanding these variations may lead to ineffective pre- and post-disruption planning. A well-established systematic literature review can provide a deep understanding regarding the concept of resilience, its limitation, and applications. The aim of this paper is to conduct a systematic literature review to study the current research around technological CISs’ resilience. In the review, 192 primary studies published between 2003 and 2020 are reviewed. Based on the results, the concept of resilience has gradually found its place among researchers since 2003, and the number of related studies has grown significantly. It emerges from the review that a CIS can be considered as resilient if it has (i) the ability to imagine what to expect, (ii) the ability to protect and resist a disruption, (iii) the ability to absorb the adverse effects of disruption, (iv) the ability to adapt to new conditions and changes caused by disruption, and (v) the ability to recover the CIS’s normal performance level after a disruption. It was shown that robustness is the most frequent resilience contributing factor among the reviewed primary studies. Resilience analysis approaches can be classified into four main groups: empirical, simulation, index-based, and qualitative approaches. Simulation approaches, as dominant models, mostly study real case studies, while empirical methods, specifically those that are deterministic, are built based on many assumptions that are difficult to justify in many cases.

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Section: In What Type Of Technological Ciss Has the Concept Of Resilience Been Used?mentioning

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“…This allows for a comparison of different system configurations and various kinds of disturbances, although the disturbances and the system's resulting reaction must be wellknown. This kind of approach is helpful when examining the technical aspects of socio-technical systems [100]. However, such approaches are very static, as they assume a quasi-stationary system.…”

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“…Hughes extends this approach to include adaptability, but neglects effects such as changing boundary conditions. Moreover, this type of approach often does not properly represent social aspects, such as social relationships and structures [100].…”

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“…In the two remaining cases, the outcome is not always certain. A challenge that arises when using this method is the availability and quality of data for the individual spheres [100]. Furthermore, the question of balance is heavily dependent on the indicator chosen, and the two proposed indicators are sensitive to the definition of group composition [100].…”

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“…A challenge that arises when using this method is the availability and quality of data for the individual spheres [100]. Furthermore, the question of balance is heavily dependent on the indicator chosen, and the two proposed indicators are sensitive to the definition of group composition [100]. One advantage of the proposed method is that there is no need for an exact description of the disturbance, although the result is only of a qualitative nature.…”

Section: Ecological Resilience For Energy Systemsmentioning

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Adapting the theory of resilience to energy systems: a review and outlook

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Sustainable systems must maintain their function even in the event of disruptions in order to be considered truly sustainable. The theory of resilience concerns the behavior of systems during and aftershocks. Initially, modern understanding of resilience focused on ecological systems; however, the theory was extended to include the ecological aspects and the also social aspects of a system. As a result of climate change, increased efforts have been made to ensure energy systems are more sustainable. The issue of resilience has therefore significantly gained importance of late to energy systems. In the future, modern energy systems will be increasingly exposed to disruptions, whether due to climate change, terrorism, or variable power supply from renewable energy sources. Protecting energy systems from all these threats is only possible at great cost, but it is much more sensible to design resilient systems that can quickly resume their system function after a disturbance. This review looks at research into the resilience and its application to energy systems and identifies similarities and differences. Starting with Holling's contribution to resilience, the development of the theory is examined and the different definitions are compared. The differences between engineering and ecological resilience are also discussed. Additionally, the review examines, on the one hand, criticism of the theory of resilience and, on the other hand, remaining questions in relation to the application of resilience, such as the system's state after the disruption. The paper subsequently examines the application of the theory of resilience to different energy systems. The review concludes with an outlook on the possibility of operationalizing resilience for energy systems.

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Energy Policy as a Tool for Promoting Power System Resilience: Malawi’s Challenges and Potential Solutions

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Blanchard

2023

Springer Proceedings in Energy

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A constant production and delivery of electricity is crucial to the functioning of the society. Power systems, however, suffer from either physical, institutional or community level challenges under climate change. Specifically, Malawi is exposed to both climatic and geologic hazards. One of the guiding principles of the needs assessment and recovery strategy is to move from response to long term resilience. The national energy policy (NEP) is considered as one of the drivers of long-term power system resilience (PSR). Understanding the status of NEP is critical in coming up with long term resilience solutions because the qualitative evaluation in this case considers information about risks, the perceived severity of risks and possible impacts of shocks. Although prior studies contributed significantly to the resilience of electricity systems, none of those studies explored the possibility of the NEP being a critical key in promoting the resilience of the electricity sector to extreme weather events. This novel study, therefore, assessed the capacity of the NEP to promote infrastructure and institutional PSR. It also identified challenges regarding the capability of the policy to support PSR. Finally, the study suggested key policy solutions to the identified challenges. Content and thematic analysis were used to analyse the status of energy policy. While the capacity of the policy to promote infrastructural resilience was assessed by evaluating the level of technical policy implementations and status of electricity supply, institutional resilience’s capacity was determined through legal and capacity building policy implementations. Notably, the NEP fails to support PSR. Resilience policies, energy policy financing, energy policy management, coordination with key stakeholders, politics, energy data and capacity of the Ministry of energy are critical issues.

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An Indicator-Based Approach for Analysing the Resilience of Transitions for Energy Regions. Part II: Empirical Application to the Case of Weiz-Gleisdorf, Austria

Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

The Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

The Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

Adapting the theory of resilience to energy systems: a review and outlook

Energy Policy as a Tool for Promoting Power System Resilience: Malawi’s Challenges and Potential Solutions

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