2019 IEEE General Meeting 8/7 Panel Presentation: Practices on Natural Disaster Mitigation

In responding to natural disasters, electric utilities have developed comprehensive plans for emergency preparation, incident response structure and procedures, service restoration process, and evaluation matrices during and after events. Response plans are gradually developed based on field experience starting from the emerging of modern power grids. New technologies in smart grid and asset management have shown great ad-vantages on natural disaster mitigation. Communication plays the key role throughout the mitigation efforts, ranging from internal information flow on disaster evaluation, asset allocation, and decision making, to awareness in publicity domain. Pre- and post-event scenario analysis presents the nature of best practices and discover knowledge and lessons-learned from real world events. In this panel, best practices of natural disaster mitigation around the world will be discussed, with the focus on the evolution of Operation Technology, Data and Communication, and role of new technologies.