Climate-driven wildfires are increasingly ignited by overhead power lines, prompting utilities to deploy preemptive Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS). Equitably Allocating Wildfire Resilience Investments for Power Grids studies how the Biden Administration’s Justice40 mandate (40 % of federal infrastructure benefits to disadvantaged communities via the CEJST index) actually plays out in a Texas case study […]
When a hurricane is coming, can a city with lots of electric cars top-up all those batteries fast enough without frying the local power grid? Three Georgia Tech engineers—Alejandro Owen Aquino, Samuel Talkington and EPIcenter affiliate Daniel Molzahn—built a computer model to find out. Using realistic-but-not-real data from Greensboro, North Carolina, the model shows that […]
Smoke cloud rising from a brush wildfire burning in San Francisco, California (Source: Adobe Stock) You’re managing the Texas Panhandle’s power grid. Heavy winds are blowing, and a worn-out utility pole ignites a fire by crashing onto a transmission line. Luckily, the fire department arrives quickly, putting out the fire before it spreads to nearby […]
The NSF grant winner and associate professor is working to improve the resilience of power grids while also indulging in his other love: history. Daniel Molzahn will readily admit he’s a Cheesehead. Born and brought up in Wisconsin, the associate professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, […]