MEASURING RESILIENCE - THE BENEFITS OF AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF POWER OUTAGES BY MEDIA DATA

摘要

So far there are no empirical studies about power outage impacts. It is unclear at which level of a Power Outage Magnitude (POM), which is defined by the duration and the number of affected people, an interaction of emergency and disaster management authorities is requested by the affected people. To enhance the understanding and to provide evidence-based recommendations, we analyse a dataset that stores characteristic parameters of experienced power outages. The data provide insight into the impacts, magnitudes, causes, and undertaken response activities. The dataset is derived from the content of investigated media articles that report currently experienced power outages. The basic idea of an empirical study of power outages by media data is introduced in this paper. The result of a pilot implementation using 234 incidents is demonstrated and its benefit is discussed.