Final Technical Report (FTR) Stakeholder-guided holistic, Adaptive Framework for enhancing community Energy Resilience (SAFER)

Summary

The SAFER (Stakeholder-guided holistic, Adaptive Framework for enhancing community Energy Resilience) project, active from July 2023 to June 2025, developed a comprehensive approach to improve energy resilience in rural Kansas communities like Dodge City and Ford County. It integrated community perspectives from over 600 survey responses with advanced modeling, including a heterofunctional graph (HFG) with 322,000 nodes and 1.04 million edges, to address vulnerabilities from aging infrastructure and extreme weather. Key outcomes include the identification of critical nodes with over 99% accuracy and a demonstration that optimal PV and storage deployment can improve resilience indices by over 11%. Furthermore, strategic recloser placement reduced Customer Energy Not Supplied (CENS) for Ford County by 48% (equivalent to $21,000,000) and Value of Energy Not Supplied (VENS) by 31% ($270,000,000).

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