Critical Infrastructure Assurance: Electric Power Reliability

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian K. Bremer ◽  
Daniel Feliz ◽  
Troy Perry
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Power Reliability

Socioeconomic Impacts of Infrastructure Disruptions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie E. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
Socioeconomic Impacts ◽  
Infrastructure Systems ◽  
Large Populations

Infrastructure systems—sometimes referred to as critical infrastructure or lifelines—provide services such as energy, water, sanitation, transportation, and communications that are essential for social and economic activities. Moreover, these systems typically serve large populations and comprise geographically extensive networks. They are also highly interdependent, so outages in one system such as electric power or telecommunications often affect other systems. As a consequence, when infrastructure systems are damaged in disasters, the ensuing losses are often substantial and disproportionately large. Collapse of a single major bridge, for example, can disrupt traffic flows over a broad region and impede emergency response, evacuation, commuting, freight movement, and economic recovery. Power outages in storms and other hazard events can affect millions of people, shut down businesses, and even cause fatalities. Infrastructure outages typically last from hours to weeks but can extend for months or even years. Minimizing disruptions to infrastructure services is thus key to enhancing communities’ disaster resilience. Research on infrastructure systems in natural hazards has been growing, especially as major disasters provide new data, insights, and urgency to the problem. Engineering advances have been made in understanding how hazard stresses may damage the physical components of infrastructure systems such as pipes and bridges, as well as how these elements can be designed to better withstand hazards. Modeling studies have assessed how physical damage disrupts the provision of services—for example, by indicating which neighborhoods in an urban area may be without potable water—and how disruption can be reduced through engineering and planning. The topic of infrastructure interdependencies has commanded substantial research interest. Alongside these developments, social science and interdisciplinary research has also been growing on the important topic of how infrastructure disruption in disasters has affected populations and economies. Insights into these impacts derive from a variety of information sources, including surveys, field observations, analysis of secondary data, and computational models. Such research has established the criticality of electric power and water services, for example, and the heightened vulnerability of certain population groups to infrastructure disruption. Omitting the socioeconomic impacts of infrastructure disruptions can lead to underinvestment in disaster mitigation. While the importance of understanding and reducing infrastructure disruption impacts is well-established, many important research gaps remain.

scholarly journals The River Nile Conflict in the Aspects of Critical Infrastructure Protection

2020 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Ákos Treszkai
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Nile River ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽  
River Nile ◽  
World War ◽  
Blue Nile ◽  
Infrastructure Protection

The aim of this paper is to present the River Nile conflict from the aspects of critical infrastructure protection. It is often stated that the next world war will be fought over water, and there are few regions as tense as the Nile Valley. Egypt and Ethiopia have a severe disagreement, Sudan is in the middle of it, and a big geopolitical shift is being played along the world’s longest river. The Grand Renaissance Dam has been un-der construction on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. This dam will be the greatest hydro-electric power plant in Africa. This critical infrastructure has both political and military importance.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Protection of Critical Infrastructure in Nigeria. A Case Study of Protection of Power Facilities in Abuja

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saladin Quadri Adigun
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Security Personnel ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
Distribution Company ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Government

This research work investigated the protection of critical infrastructure in Nigeria with special attention to electric power infrastructure within Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The study was guided by six research questions and the instrument employed for the research was titled ‘Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Protection of Critical Infrastructure’ (EEPCI). The study was carried out among the consumers of electricity in three of the six Area Councils, the security personnel employed to guard as well as the workers of the power facilities called Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in the capital territory. The entire population of the study was 3,750 and this cut across the strata of the stakeholders in power industry. The data gathered were analyzed by the use of frequency, percentages and statistical mean distribution technique. Findings from the study showed that the existing protection techniques are weak, unassertive and the power companies are slow to mitigating effects of attacks on their facilities. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended that policies and equipment protection strategies be utilized by the power companies and the government. The study laid emphasis on establishment of community anti-crime group and provision of free toll hotline for emergency purposes. Furthermore, the penalty for damages to power facilities was recommended to be stiffer and the security should be empowered to excel in their profession.

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