A framework for resilience performance analysis of an electrical grid

Dynamic and diverse disruptions are continuously challenging the functionality of Electrical Grid. Climate change and integration of modern communication technologies in the grid raises new challenges, and past few year events highlight the need to address these challenges especially for the electrical power distribution system. Quick recovery of the grid after an outage is vital in order to minimize its economic, social, and political impacts. Resilience is the terminology that evaluate response and recovery process. This paper proposes a framework for the resilience performance analysis of the electrical grid considering different aspects that evolved around the response of the grid against any kind of disruption. The quality of the outcome after response and speed of the response is affected by the cause of disruptions, need of resources to response against disruptions, the capability of the resources and its performance. Speed and quality of the response are the most used measure of resilience. Relevance of the aspects that considered in the framework is also the part of this study.