Publications: Reliability and Resilience

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2025

Baik, Sunhee, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Peter H Larsen, Gabby Geraci, and Karen Johnson."Estimates of the Economic Impacts of Long-Duration, Widespread Power Disruptions in Puerto Rico." (2025).
Baik, Sunhee, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Galen L Barbose, Will Gorman, Cesca Miller, and Michael Spears."The power reliability event simulator tool (PRESTO): A novel approach to distribution system reliability analysis and applications."International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 164 (2025) 110442. DOI
Collins, Myles T, Matia Whiting, Josh A Schellenberg, and Lisa C Schwartz."Bridging the Gap on Data, Metrics, and Analyses for Grid Resilience to Weather Events: Information that utilities can provide regulators, state energy offices, and other stakeholders." (2025).

2024

Shipley, Jessica, Jay Barlow, and Grace Relf."Review of Literature and Utility Commission Proceedings Relevant to Integrated System Planning: Annotated Bibliography Prepared to Support the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission." (2024).
Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Bill Savings vs. Backup Power: Evaluating operational tradeoffs for home solar+storage systems." (2024).
Schellenberg, Josh A, and Lisa C Schwartz."Grid Resilience Plans: State Requirements, Utility Practices, and Utility Plan Template." (2024).
Larsen, Peter H, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Alan H Sanstad, Sunhee Baik, Ian Sue Wing, Dan Wei, Adam Rose, Jeremy Smith, Christopher Ramee, and Ridge Peterson."Power Outage Economics Tool: A Prototype for the Commonwealth Edison Service Territory." (2024).
Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C Schwartz, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Gayathri Krishnamoothy, Tom Wall, Josh A Schellenberg, Peter H Larsen, and Neil Weisenfeld."Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2024).

2023

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Cesca Miller, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, and Philip White."Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power: Implications of building efficiency, load flexibility, and electrification for backup during long-duration power interruptions." (2023).
Baik, Sunhee, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Will Gorman, and Michael Spears."Backup Power Performance of Solar-plus-Storage Systems during Routine Power Interruptions: A Case Study Application of Berkeley Lab’s PRESTO Model." (2023).
Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Benjamin D Leibowicz, Thomas Carr, Sunhee Baik, and Peter H Larsen."A Guide for Improved Resource Adequacy Assessments in Evolving Power Systems: Institutional and Technical Dimensions." (2023).

2022

Villa, Daniel, Tyler Schostek, Carlo Bianchi, Madeline McMillan, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."The Multi-scenario Extreme Weather Simulator: Energy Resilience for Mission Assurance." (2022). DOI

2020

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Benjamin Leibowicz, Thomas Carr, Maury Galbraith, and Peter H Larsen."Implications of a regional resource adequacy program on utility integrated resource planning: Study for the Western United States." (2020).
Larsen, Peter H, Megan Lawson, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto."Severe weather, utility spending, and the long-term reliability of the U.S. power system."Energy 198 (2020). DOI

2019

Sheppard, Colin, Julia Szinai, Nikit Abhyankar, and Anand R Gopal."Grid Impacts of Electric Vehicles and Managed Charging in California." (2019).
Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Heidemarie C Caswell, and David Till."Distribution system versus bulk power system: identifying the source of electric service interruptions in the US."IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution 13.5 (2019) 717-723. DOI
Dunn, Laurel N, Michael D Sohn, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto."Exploratory analysis of high-resolution power interruption data reveals spatial and temporal heterogeneity in electric grid reliability."Energy Policy 129 (2019) 206 - 214. DOI
Larsen, Peter H, Alan H Sanstad, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto."Frontiers in the Economics of Widespread, Long-Duration Power Interruptions: Proceedings from an Expert Workshop."Frontiers in the Economics of Widespread, Long-Duration Power Interruptions (2019).

2018

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Joseph H Eto, and Heidemarie C Caswell."Distinguishing Among the Sources of Electric Service Interruptions."2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS) (2018). DOI
Sullivan, Michael J, Myles T Collins, Josh A Schellenberg, and Peter H Larsen."Estimating Power System Interruption Costs: A Guidebook for Electric Utilities." (2018).
LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Joseph H Eto, Laurel N Dunn, and Michael D Sohn."Improving the Estimated Cost of Sustained Power Interruptions to Electricity Customers."Energy 153.15 June 2018 (2018) 1038-1047. DOI
Schellenberg, Josh A, and Peter H Larsen."Changes to the Underlying Econometric Models for the Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator." (2018).

2017

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Peter H Larsen, and Joseph H Eto."Evaluating Proposed Investments in Power System Reliability and Resilience: Preliminary Results from Interviews with Public Utility Commission Staff." (2017).

2016

Mills, Evan, and Richard B Jones."An Insurance Perspective on U.S. Electric Grid Disruption Costs."The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice 41.4 (2016) 555 - 586. DOI
Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Michael D Sohn, and Heidemarie C Caswell."Evaluating the Performance of the IEEE Standard 1366 Method for Identifying Major Event Days View Document."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 32.2 (2016). DOI