Dr. Svetlana Ekisheva - Resilience Metrics Development at NERC

Speaker:   Dr. Svetlana Ekisheva, Principal data science advisor, Engineering, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)

Topic: Resilience Metrics Development at NERC

Date and Time: Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 11:00 am – 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Abstract: Since 2020, North American Electric Reliability Corporation has performed analysis of transmission system resilience and has published the results in NERC’s annual State of Reliability report (2021-current). These studies confirm that almost all large transmission outage events in North America were caused by extreme weather such as hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms etc. From TADS data, for each large outage event we define outage and restore processes and calculate a set of metrics that quantify grid resilience against natural disasters. We will discuss differences and similarities in how the transmission system withstands, responds to and recovers from different types of extreme weather. 

Bio: Svetlana Ekisheva is a Principal Data Science Advisor at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). She is responsible for developing statistical models and performing statistical analysis of the databases supported by NERC. Her expertise includes 15 years of teaching and conducting research at the universities in Russia and the U.S. Svetlana earned her Ph.D. in Probability and Statistics from St.-Petersburg State University, Russia, in 1997. Her current research interests are in risk assessment, reliability and resilience analysis of the Bulk Power System.