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Supply

W-03 · SUPPLY
W-03NETWORK

How many homes lose power, and for how long?

When a storm reaches the grid, two numbers matter most to the people affected: how many customers lose supply, and how long restoration takes. I study both using records of past power outages in the UK.

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  1. W-03.1 IN PROGRESS

    Wind and power outages

    Relates gust speed to the number of customers affected and to restoration time, estimates a critical gust speed, and separates how much of the variation in impact comes from wind and how much from other factors.

    STATISTICAL MODELLING · VARIANCE DECOMPOSITION
    ONGOING
  2. W-03.2 IN PROGRESS

    Outage impact by hazard type

    Compares how the number of affected customers relates to outage duration across different types of weather hazard.

    STATISTICAL MODELLING
    ONGOING