Assessing impacts of energy storage on resilience of distribution systems against hurricanes

This paper develops a comprehensive framework to analyze the impact of energy storage on improving the resilience of distribution systems against hurricanes. This paper first develops a spatio-temporal model of progressing hurricane when making landfall that can be used to anticipate outage scenarios caused by the gust-wind speed. An optimization model is then developed for optimizing the operation of distribution systems during hurricane that captures both pre-outage and post-outage network operation constraints. Numerical simulations are performed on the modified IEEE 33-bus distribution system with real hurricane data in Houston to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model.