Distributed Wind Resilience
Withstanding and recovering from disruptions
Benefits
Improving resilience—how well a system can withstand and recover from disruptions—involves planning (assessing hazards and setting goals), operation (maintenance and service levels) and future improvements.
Distributed wind is a resilient resource that is complementary with other renewable resources. Since it’s locally based, distributed wind can still provide power, even during regional incidents.
Benefits of distributed wind include:
- Diversified energy sources
- Improved grid stability
- Mitigated risk associated with centralized energy generation
MIRACL
Microgrids, Infrastructure, Resilience and Advanced Controls (MIRACL) is a Department of Energy Wind Energy Technology Office project that provided the foundation of resilience analysis for the On-site Wind for Rural Load Centers (On-site Wind) project.
The framework, metrics and case studies developed in MIRACL provided On-Site Wind with a structure to study resilience assessment and improvement.
Researchers used MIRACL to develop a resilience assessment framework to evaluate resilience through a system’s lifecycle. That framework was used to demonstrate ways distributed wind can increase a system’s reliability. The framework takes different systems, hazards, and stakeholder perspectives into account.
Researchers also used MIRACL to develop the Resilience Development for Electric Energy Delivery Systems (ResDeeds) to evaluate resilience through a system’s lifecycle.
Resilience Development for Electric Energy Delivery Systems (ResDEEDS)
Weather-related disasters and cyber-attacks are on the rise, threatening the resilience of electric energy delivery systems (EEDS). These systems are a combination of power production and distribution elements, such as power plants, transformers, and transmission lines.
INL developed the Resilience Development for Electric Energy Delivery Systems (ResDEEDS) tool, based on INL’s proven Resilience Framework, to help EEDS address these challenges.
ResDEEDS offers a structured approach to resilience planning, operation, and evaluation across various stages of a system’s lifecycle. It features a user-friendly web interface, facilitating seamless interaction and workflow navigation.
Users can define and prioritize hazards and establish quantitative resilience goals tailored to specific system characteristics and hazards.
The tool integrates with the Spine Toolbox, a modular platform for system modeling and simulation, to evaluate system resilience against defined metrics and hazards.
ResDEEDS enables users to iteratively modify system configurations, run simulations using the Spine Toolbox, and assess the impact of proposed changes on resilience metrics. Results are presented through the local web interface, allowing users to gauge goal attainment and track differences between baseline and proposed system configurations.
ResDEEDS is a free tool available on GitHub.
