Financial Hazard Prediction Due to Power Outages Associated with Severe Weather-Related Natural Disaster Categories
Severe weather conditions not only damage electric power infrastructure, and energy systems, but also affect millions of users, including residential, commercial or industrial consumers. Moreover, power outages due to weather-related natural disasters have been causing financial losses worth billion...
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| author | Rafal Ali Ikramullah Khosa Ammar Armghan Jehangir Arshad Sajjad Rabbani Naif Alsharabi Habib Hamam |
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| description | Severe weather conditions not only damage electric power infrastructure, and energy systems, but also affect millions of users, including residential, commercial or industrial consumers. Moreover, power outages due to weather-related natural disasters have been causing financial losses worth billions of US dollars. In this paper, we analyze the impact of power outages on the revenue of electric power suppliers, particularly due to the top five weather-related natural disasters. For this purpose, reliable and publicly available power outage events data are considered. The data provide the time of the outage event, the geographic region, electricity consumption and tariffs, social and economic indicators, climatological annotation, consumer category distribution, population and land area, and so forth. An exploratory analysis is carried out to reveal the impact of weather-related disasters and the associated electric power revenue risk. The top five catastrophic weather-related natural disaster categories are investigated individually to predict the related revenue loss. The most influencing parameters contributing to efficient prediction are identified and their partial dependence on revenue loss is illustrated. It was found that the electric power revenue associated with weather-related natural disasters is a function of several parameters, including outage duration, number of customers, tariffs and economic indicators. The findings of this research will help electric power suppliers estimate revenue risk, as well as authorities to make risk-informed decisions regarding the energy infrastructure and systems planning. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e7bada49fd2e45adb60e3c56b1ae1de82023-11-24T14:34:13ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732022-12-011524929210.3390/en15249292Financial Hazard Prediction Due to Power Outages Associated with Severe Weather-Related Natural Disaster CategoriesRafal Ali0Ikramullah Khosa1Ammar Armghan2Jehangir Arshad3Sajjad Rabbani4Naif Alsharabi5Habib Hamam6Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, PakistanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, PakistanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, PakistanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Lahore College for Women University, LCWU Lahore, Lahore 54000, PakistanCollege of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Hail, Hail 55476, Saudi ArabiaFaculty of Engineering, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB E1A 3E9, CanadaSevere weather conditions not only damage electric power infrastructure, and energy systems, but also affect millions of users, including residential, commercial or industrial consumers. Moreover, power outages due to weather-related natural disasters have been causing financial losses worth billions of US dollars. In this paper, we analyze the impact of power outages on the revenue of electric power suppliers, particularly due to the top five weather-related natural disasters. For this purpose, reliable and publicly available power outage events data are considered. The data provide the time of the outage event, the geographic region, electricity consumption and tariffs, social and economic indicators, climatological annotation, consumer category distribution, population and land area, and so forth. An exploratory analysis is carried out to reveal the impact of weather-related disasters and the associated electric power revenue risk. The top five catastrophic weather-related natural disaster categories are investigated individually to predict the related revenue loss. The most influencing parameters contributing to efficient prediction are identified and their partial dependence on revenue loss is illustrated. It was found that the electric power revenue associated with weather-related natural disasters is a function of several parameters, including outage duration, number of customers, tariffs and economic indicators. The findings of this research will help electric power suppliers estimate revenue risk, as well as authorities to make risk-informed decisions regarding the energy infrastructure and systems planning.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/24/9292electric powersevere weather disastersrevenue lossprediction |
| spellingShingle | Rafal Ali Ikramullah Khosa Ammar Armghan Jehangir Arshad Sajjad Rabbani Naif Alsharabi Habib Hamam Financial Hazard Prediction Due to Power Outages Associated with Severe Weather-Related Natural Disaster Categories Energies electric power severe weather disasters revenue loss prediction |
| title | Financial Hazard Prediction Due to Power Outages Associated with Severe Weather-Related Natural Disaster Categories |
| title_full | Financial Hazard Prediction Due to Power Outages Associated with Severe Weather-Related Natural Disaster Categories |
| title_fullStr | Financial Hazard Prediction Due to Power Outages Associated with Severe Weather-Related Natural Disaster Categories |
| title_full_unstemmed | Financial Hazard Prediction Due to Power Outages Associated with Severe Weather-Related Natural Disaster Categories |
| title_short | Financial Hazard Prediction Due to Power Outages Associated with Severe Weather-Related Natural Disaster Categories |
| title_sort | financial hazard prediction due to power outages associated with severe weather related natural disaster categories |
| topic | electric power severe weather disasters revenue loss prediction |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/24/9292 |
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