Please find attached the Call for Papers for the Special Collection on Resilience of Power Infrastructure System.
Guest Editors
- Wei Zhang, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, wzhang@uconn.edu
- Ge (Gaby) Ou, Assistant Professor, University of Florida, gaby.ou@essie.ufl.edu
- Youngjib Ham, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, yham@tamu.edu
- Zongjie Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, zongjie.wang@uconn.edu
Aims & Scope
Extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, droughts, and flooding, are expected to be more “common” under a more variable climate system. With threats from stronger hurricanes, wildfires, snowstorms, etc., power infrastructure systems are experiencing critical threats, leading to many community residents and industrial facilities without power for days, weeks or longer. With the interdependency with other infrastructure systems, such as the communication, water, and transportation systems, the damages or failures of critical components of power infrastructure system could potentially create cascading effects and create disastrous damages to communities, which might take years to recover. The main objective of this special collection is to bring together researchers working on different aspects of the resilience of power infrastructure systems. State-of- the-art knowledge and expertise from the researcher, engineers, operators, and owners are expected to be synthesized to enhance the resilience of power infrastructure systems when confronting extreme weather events in their life cycles.