IEEE Power & Energy Magazine - January/February 2022 - 78

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IN RECENT YEARS, COUNTRIES AROUND THE
world have been severely affected by catastrophic wildfires
with significant environmental, economic, and human
losses. Critical infrastructures, including power systems,
have been severely damaged, compromising
the quality of life and the continuous and reliable
provision of essential services, including the electricity
supply.
When such disasters strike, the impacts
usually go beyond what the system has been
designed to withstand, potentially leading to
prolonged power outages for large numbers
of customers and critical loads in the system.
These impacts are expected to only get worse
as a result of climate change-driven high
temperatures in wildfire seasons, as recently
highlighted in California, Australia, Chile,
Brazil, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.
Power system planners have traditionally
attempted to boost the resilience of critical
electrical power infrastructure against such
high-impact low-probability events by making the
network redundant or stronger to withstand their
severe shocks. Nevertheless, recent wildfires reiterate
that alternative solutions need to be explored and
deployed for the holistic provision of robustness, preparedness,
and recovery. Distributed energy resources
(DER) and microgrids arise as attractive decentralized
options for providing a means for riding through and
recovering from the catastrophic impacts of wildfires.
They represent localized energy solutions that are potentially
less exposed to the wildfire effects compared to
network assets.
This article aims to tackle a set of key relevant questions:
✔ What is the role of DER and microgrids to protect the
system against wildfires?
Against Wildfires
Microgrids
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