Location
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii
Event Website
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/
Start Date
7-1-2025 12:00 AM
End Date
10-1-2025 12:00 AM
Description
As electric power grid critical infrastructure grows increasingly heterogeneous, a key question is how to encourage and ensure relatively equitable access to the energy it supplies. With diverse socio-economic regions linked to the grid and various generation types, achieving equitable access to clean energy, as outlined in initiatives like DOE’s Justice40, remains an important aspirational goal. Building on previous work, this paper describes our investigation of a heterogenous grid modeled on the Alaska Railbelt, allowing us to explore the intrinsic inequities and possible mechanisms to enhance the equity across regions. We apply risk and equity metrics to different regions to examine how penalties which change the cost can impact the equity as well as the overall grid’s risk and dynamics.
Recommended Citation
Newman, David; Carreras, Benjamin; Lenhart, Stephanie; Blumsack, Seth; and Hay, Brian, "Utilizing Regulation to Improve Risk and Equity in Heterogeneous Transmission Grids" (2025). Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2025 (HICSS-58). 3.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-58/es/resilient_networks/3
Utilizing Regulation to Improve Risk and Equity in Heterogeneous Transmission Grids
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii
As electric power grid critical infrastructure grows increasingly heterogeneous, a key question is how to encourage and ensure relatively equitable access to the energy it supplies. With diverse socio-economic regions linked to the grid and various generation types, achieving equitable access to clean energy, as outlined in initiatives like DOE’s Justice40, remains an important aspirational goal. Building on previous work, this paper describes our investigation of a heterogenous grid modeled on the Alaska Railbelt, allowing us to explore the intrinsic inequities and possible mechanisms to enhance the equity across regions. We apply risk and equity metrics to different regions to examine how penalties which change the cost can impact the equity as well as the overall grid’s risk and dynamics.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-58/es/resilient_networks/3