Lead: Luo Xu
Counselors: Radley Horton, Ning Lin, Jie Gong

This research project, led by Luo Xu, focuses on understanding how extreme weather events, particularly hurricanes and heatwaves, affect the electric power grids. By combining models of grid infrastructure damage, operation, and recovery, the research team will quantify the spatiotemporal risk of power outages (both probability and severity) and the dynamics of grid restoration (time and proportion) under climate risks. They will also evaluate the compound hazard risk to electricity power grids, estimating the likelihood of outages for local communities under the current and future hurricane and heatwave scenarios.