Bushfire and climate change risks to electricity transmission networks

CH Wang - Engineering for Extremes: Decision-Making in an …, 2021 - Springer
… –2020 bushfires in New South Wales and Victoria destroyed … recognised as the most widely
used fire danger system [20], … on the physical and electrical parameters of the transmission …

[HTML][HTML] Unveiling the factors responsible for Australia's Black Summer fires of 2019/2020

N Levin, M Yebra, S Phinn - Fire, 2021 - mdpi.com
… for each wildfire, and the fire danger index (Table 2). The daily … prescribed burning, electrical
infrastructure) [86,87]. Human-… associated with the forest fire danger index in Victoria [93]. …

[HTML][HTML] Power Distribution System Faults and Wildfires: Mechanisms and Prevention

S Bandara, P Rajeev, E Gad - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
fire danger conditions, can result in the initiation of wildfires [19]. … “Black Saturday 2009”
wildfires in Victoria, provided special … line losses to detect potential electrical fires. Moreover, the …

[HTML][HTML] An empirical modelling and simulation framework for fire events initiated by vegetation and electricity network interactions

R Wilson, R Wickramasuriya, D Marchiori - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
… The two main causes of electrical-infrastructure-initiated fires … are caused by vegetation falling
onto or blowing onto electrical … associated with ignition was Fire Danger Rating (FDR) and …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for defining fire danger to support fire management operations in Australia

JJ Hollis, S Matthews, WR Anderson… - … of Wildland Fire, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
… links the fire danger index and fire activity, eg number of fires, number of … of both human
induced and natural causes of ignition. … of the dataset came from Victoria and Western Australia. …

Real-time detection of wildfire risk caused by powerline vegetation faults using advanced machine learning techniques

J Ma, JCP Cheng, F Jiang, VJL Gan, M Wang… - Advanced Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Handmer and O’Neill [12] examined Victorian bushfire safety … Since stage-1 never produces
fire risk for all the tests, according to … are not real bushfires, the electrical environment is very …

Wildfire risk mitigation: A paradigm shift in power systems planning and operation

JW Muhs, M Parvania… - IEEE Open Access …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Dunstall, “Electrically caused wildfires in victoria, australia are over-represented when
fire danger is elevated,” Landscape and urban planning, vol. 167, pp. 267–274, 2017. …

Fighting wildfires: predicting initial attack success across Victoria, Australia

MP Plucinski, S Dunstall, NF McCarthy… - … of wildland fire, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Wildfires threaten public safety and can cause significant … of fires to roads, concurrence
of fire ban restrictions and a range of weather variables, including grass and forest fire danger

[图书][B] Feeling the heat: International perspectives on the prevention of wildfire ignition

J Stanley, A March, J Ogloff, J Thompson - 2020 - books.google.com
… The major 2009 wildfires in Victoria had the effect of depressing … The fire risk is also
exacerbated by inadequate prevention … told that electrical infrastructure starts about 200 wildfires a …

Analysis of utility wildfire risk assessments and mitigations in California

JW Mitchell - Fire safety journal, 2023 - Elsevier
… [7] demonstrate that electrically caused fires in Victoria, Australia are over-represented when
fire danger is high, and that these fires also are larger and more destructive. Data from the …