Understanding Correlated Threats to Department of Defense Energy Systems
Climate change poses an existential threat to the United States military’s energy systems. We researched current trends in energy, economics, and weather, translating those trends into quantifiable threats to the military’s secondary power systems. We also assembled a data set about secondary power...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
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| author | Adams, Katherine E. |
| author2 | Roozbehani, Mardavij |
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| description | Climate change poses an existential threat to the United States military’s energy systems. We researched current trends in energy, economics, and weather, translating those trends into quantifiable threats to the military’s secondary power systems. We also assembled a data set about secondary power systems on domestic U.S. military bases. Because that data set was missing critical information, we formulated and then evaluated an imputation method to complete the data set. This imputation method successfully predicted expected cost for the missing installation data. We ran simulations using our quantified trends and data set on existing software to predict the effects of those trends on certain U.S. military bases. Ultimately, we identified threats that could potentially cost 150 million dollars and cause more than a week of additional electrical downtime for those select bases. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1393752022-01-15T04:03:57Z Understanding Correlated Threats to Department of Defense Energy Systems Adams, Katherine E. Roozbehani, Mardavij Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Climate change poses an existential threat to the United States military’s energy systems. We researched current trends in energy, economics, and weather, translating those trends into quantifiable threats to the military’s secondary power systems. We also assembled a data set about secondary power systems on domestic U.S. military bases. Because that data set was missing critical information, we formulated and then evaluated an imputation method to complete the data set. This imputation method successfully predicted expected cost for the missing installation data. We ran simulations using our quantified trends and data set on existing software to predict the effects of those trends on certain U.S. military bases. Ultimately, we identified threats that could potentially cost 150 million dollars and cause more than a week of additional electrical downtime for those select bases. M.Eng. 2022-01-14T15:07:50Z 2022-01-14T15:07:50Z 2021-06 2021-11-02T13:44:53.332Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139375 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright MIT http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Adams, Katherine E. Understanding Correlated Threats to Department of Defense Energy Systems |
| title | Understanding Correlated Threats to Department of
Defense Energy Systems |
| title_full | Understanding Correlated Threats to Department of
Defense Energy Systems |
| title_fullStr | Understanding Correlated Threats to Department of
Defense Energy Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding Correlated Threats to Department of
Defense Energy Systems |
| title_short | Understanding Correlated Threats to Department of
Defense Energy Systems |
| title_sort | understanding correlated threats to department of defense energy systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139375 |
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