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eess.SY2025

Optimizing Battery and Line Undergrounding Investments for Transmission Systems under Wildfire Risk Scenarios: A Benders Decomposition Approach

Ryan Piansky, Rahul K. Gupta, Daniel K. Molzahn

With electric power infrastructure posing an increasing risk of igniting wildfires under continuing climate change, utilities are frequently de-energizing power lines to mitigate w…

eess.SY2025

Evaluating Undergrounding Decisions for Wildfire Ignition Risk Mitigation across Multiple Hazards

Ryan Piansky, Daniel K. Molzahn, Nicole D. Jackson +1

With electric power infrastructure increasingly susceptible to impacts from climate-driven natural disasters, there is an increasing need for optimization algorithms that determine…

eess.SY2024

Quantifying Metrics for Wildfire Ignition Risk from Geographic Data in Power Shutoff Decision-Making

Ryan Piansky, Sofia Taylor, Noah Rhodes +3

Faults on power lines and other electric equipment are known to cause wildfire ignitions. To mitigate the threat of wildfire ignitions from electric power infrastructure, many util…

eess.SY2024

Long Duration Battery Sizing, Siting, and Operation Under Wildfire Risk Using Progressive Hedging

Ryan Piansky, Georgia Stinchfield, Alyssa Kody +2

Battery sizing and siting problems are computationally challenging due to the need to make long-term planning decisions that are cognizant of short-term operational decisions. This…

eess.SY2022★ 13 cited

Optimizing Transmission Infrastructure Investments to Support Line De-energization for Mitigating Wildfire Ignition Risk

Alyssa Kody, Ryan Piansky, Daniel K. Molzahn

Wildfires pose a growing risk to public safety in regions like the western United States, and, historically, electric power systems have ignited some of the most destructive wildfi…