Power Failure - Risks? - R+V Versicherung

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2011 • 2 February, Texas, forced outages at two major coal-fired power plants and high electricity demand due to cold weather caused rotating blackouts affecting more than one million customers. • 3 February, a cyclone hit communities in Queensland, Australia. 170,000 homes lost electricity. • 4 February, at least eight states in north-eastern Brazil suffered from a major blackout from around midnight to 4 a.m. It is estimated that 53 million people were affected. Major cities were completely without out of power. • 22 February, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the city of Christchurch, NZ damaging large parts of Orion's sub-transmission and distribution network. Over 80 percent of the city (approximately 160,000 customers) lost power following the quake • 24 March, nuclear catastrophe following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan – loss of 11% of country's total power – significant impact • 30 June, Chennai, India suffered a major power outage affecting many parts of the city for more than 15 hours • 11 July, Cyprus a half-week power outage, affected all cities on Greek part of the island after blast near Vassilikos power plant • 11 July, the Chicago, USA area was hit by a large windstorm which knocked out power to over 850,000. • 23 July, failure of a glass insulator caused an outage of most of Northern Saskatchewan for about 4 hrs . • 27–28 August, Hurricane Irene caused over five million power outages in USA. • 8–9 September, power failure affected parts of California and Arizona, as well as parts of northwestern Mexico. Over five million people were affected • 24 September, nine million people in north and central Chile were affected for at least two hours • In late October, heavy snow storm on the east coast of the USA caused over two million power outages. Some residents of Connecticut and western Massachusetts were without electricity for over seven days.
Causes – overview • Climate change – storms, lightning, floods, cold/heat waves – often leads to increased demand • Earthquake – can lead to failure of production, e.g. 12 th March 2011, tsunami that hit Japan • Solar storm – the sun may produce violent solar storms or mass ejections which have the ability to generate a electromagnetic pulse (EMP) could shut down all electronic devices! NASA High risk date 21 st December 2012 • Mega cities – increased demand – India • Lack of investment, aging infrastructure • Increased volatility of solar and wind power can interrupt transmission • Human error – Europe 2006 • Terrorism • Cyber attack – UK Security Services recently warned “credible threats to cyber security of an unprecedented scale, diversity and complexity”.
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