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Abstract
Estimating Electrical Service Areas Using GIS and Cellular Automata
Track: Electric and Gas
Author(s): Steve P Linger, Murray Wolinsky
Electric utilities serve their customers through electrical substations. In addition to the quantity of electric power provided by a substation, there is an associated geographic service area. Defining this area is difficult because utilities dynamically alter the topology of their electrical network to respond to emergency events. The service areas are useful for inferring the impact of a power outage on a population and other infrastructures such as natural gas or transportation. This paper examines the use of GIS technology and data sets along with cellular automata algorithms to estimate these service areas.
Steve P Linger
Los Alamos National Laboratory
P.O. Box 1663
MS F604
Los Alamos, NM 87545
USA
Phone: 505 667 7147
E-mail: spl@lanl.gov