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.