RAPID: Impact of Earthquakes on the Electricity Infrastructure

本研究的目的是调查新西兰南岛（克赖斯特彻奇）一系列地震对电力基础设施的影响。此外，这项研究将预测如果智能电网技术被整合到现有的电网中，将会产生什么样的影响。结果会更好，更糟，还是两者兼而有之？在哪些领域需要进一步的研究？方法是对新西兰？中国与新西兰合作的智能传感、监测和控制技术电力系统？美国大学和电力系统和智能电网方面的公用事业专家。智能优势：在自然灾害和恶意攻击期间，采用新算法的智能监测和控制电力系统将提高对电力负荷变化和组件故障的实时响应能力，改善电网的动态和暂态行为，提高电网可靠性，确保局部和广域稳定性，并协助控制室的人类专家。更广泛的影响：能源安全对美国非常重要，因此，通过使用先进的传感、监测和控制技术，保护我们的电网免受各种形式的干扰，包括自然灾害和恶意攻击，至关重要。

The objective of this research is to investigate the effects of a series of earthquakes in the South Island of New Zealand (Christchurch) on the electricity infrastructure. Furthermore, this research study will make projections on what the impacts would look like if smart-grid technologies were integrated into the existing power network. Would the result be better, worse, or a combination of both? In what areas is further research needed? The approach is to carry out a real-time simulation of the New Zealand?s power system with intelligent sensing, monitoring and control technologies in collaboration with New Zealand?s university and utility experts in power systems and smart grids. Intellectual merit: During natural disasters and malicious attacks, intelligent monitoring and controlling power systems with new algorithms will increase real-time responsiveness to changing power loads and component failures, improve the dynamic and transient behavior of the power network, improve grid reliability, ensure local and wide area stability, and assist human experts in control rooms.Broader Impacts: Energy security is very important to United States, and thus it is critical to protect our electric grid from different forms of disturbances including natural disasters and malicious attacks by using advanced sensing, monitoring and control technologies.