Managing Wildfire Risks: Protection System Technical Developments Combined With Operational Advances to Improve Public Safety
Eric Udren, Chris Bolton, Dan Dietmeyer, Tariq Rahman, Sergio Flores-Castro
Abstract
Utilities around the world are facing unprecedented levels of fire risk from routine electrical faults and failures in transmission and distribution lines and equipment. The risk is elevated by changing weather patterns that produce extreme drought conditions and violent storms. These utilities are confronting aging power apparatus and difficult-to-detect failure and arcing fault scenarios. Major fires in recent years have increased public awareness of the risk.
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Risk managementRisk analysis (engineering)Electric power transmissionEngineeringElectric power systemForensic engineeringPower-system protectionRisk assessmentReliability engineeringExtreme weatherStormEnvironmental scienceComputer scienceBusinessPower (physics)Computer securityMeteorologyElectrical engineeringClimate changeFinanceBiologyPhysicsEcologyQuantum mechanicsFire effects on ecosystemsFire Detection and Safety SystemsLightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena