About the project:
Power outages along the West Coast are increasing in frequency and duration due to aging infrastructure, extreme weather, and rising demand. These outages disproportionately affect vulnerable communities, compounding health risks, food insecurity, and cultural resource loss. By collecting and synthesizing outage data, social metrics, and storms, we provide actionable insights for resilience planning and transmission development. This work moves beyond traditional metrics to focus on long-duration events and county-level disparities, revealing risks that standard utility reporting obscures.
Principal Investigator:
Katie Arkema, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
