Activity 4: Prioritizing Power Restoration

Activity 4: Prioritizing Power Restoration

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Purpose

  • Teams will reevaluate how power is restored after a storm or natural disaster.
  • Teams will create their own restoration plans and justify their plan.
  • Teams should use this activity to understand how they want their smart power grid design to work efficiently after a natural disaster.

Instructions

It is time to make decisions on which users in the community should be restored first.

  1. Review the “How is power restored after a storm?” section in Activity 1: Background Reading. Does your team agree with the order that power is restored? Why or why not? What happens if an isolated home has an emergency but can’t call for help? How can your team make the system better using a smart grid? Write 1-2 paragraphs using complete sentences.
  2. Make a restoration plan for the community’s new smart grid or microgrid. Create a numbered list prioritizing the user types identified in Activity 2, Step 2 (with 1 being the most important). Your team can change some user types based on your design. Mark any new user types on Google MyMap and calculate their power load and cycle.
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  3. Explain and justify why your team decided on these priorities. Is the list different from the one in Activity 2? Were the most essential users prioritized? Or were other factors considered? Write a paragraph using complete sentences.

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