【内容摘要】

Community energy resilience includes considering a community's sensitivity to disasters and its capacity to recover effectively. Failing to include equity considerations in resilience-enhancing strategies can lead to uneven recovery and affect vulnerable populations disproportionately, which has been a longstanding concern in the U.S. This paper introduces an energy resilience-focused Power Outage Social Vulnerability Index (PO-SVI) that is designed to assess the vulnerability of small-scale residential communities to climate change-related power outages. The proposed index is based on three key dimensions: 1) prolonged power outage susceptibility, 2) the community's population coping capacity, and 3) community accessibility. The PO-SVI structure is constructed by integrating multiple factors and indicators that collectively contribute to the overall index. The necessary data representing indicators are acquired through interviews and reliable datasets. A hierarchical-based structural model is employed for the construction of sub-indices and the overall PO-SVI. As the case studies, three residential communities in the Houston and Austin metropolitan areas were selected, and interviews were conducted with the households and community leaders. In addition, the study investigates the Value of Lost Load (VoLL) against power outages for the targeted residential communities through interviews and provides data analysis on the most influencing household features. The proposed PO-SVI, as well as VoLL estimates, serve as a valuable tool for developing resilience-focused and equity-oriented energy crisis solutions。

【报告人简介】

董智捷博士，现任休斯顿大学建筑管理系副教授。先后于南京大学获得本科学位、哥伦比亚大学获得硕士学位以及康奈尔大学获得博士学位。曾在联邦快递、CSX运输公司和通用汽车公司工作。研究重点是通过优化和人工智能来提高不同复杂系统（如供应链和运输）的效率。其工作获得过联邦机构（如NSF、FHWA和美国能源部）和工业部门（如AMD和壳牌）的支持。并且还是多个国际和国家奖项的获得者，包括NSF CISE CRII奖、NSF OSSEEER早期职业研究员奖和INFORMS MIF早期Carrer奖。董智捷博士还是IISE的高级成员、IISE物流与供应链部的候任总裁。她还担任《通信工程》（Nature Portfolio）的编辑委员会成员。

个人学者网站： https://dot.egr.uh.edu/departments/cm/people/faculty/dong-sasha-zhijie  

撰稿：姜彦弛  审核：刘德海  单位：公共管理学院