Showing 30 results for Author: Varisara Tansakul
Aug, 2026
Conference Paper
Power outages disrupt critical infrastructure and cause billions of dollars in economic losses annually in the United States. Accurate and granular outage reporting is vital for effective restoration and mitigation. This paper examines the integration of the Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System (H3) to enhance power outage reporting, leveraging its uniform gri…
Jun, 2026
ORNL Report
Apr, 2026
ORNL Report
In recent years mass media, digital communications and social media have been weaponized to conduct disinformation campaigns at immense scale, speed and reachability into target and vulnerable communities. This has led to urgent need as well as challenge in detecting or identifying Disinformation Accounts or Disinformation Actors, i.e., those users in the social media plat…
Mar, 2026
Conference Paper
Modeling, testing and instituting Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) as Blackstart Resoucrces presents several challenges due to the fundamental differences between traditional black start resources (e.g., large generators) versus DERs like solar PV systems with battery storage. This paper addresses some of these key challenges. These include intermittency of coordinating…
Jan, 2026
ORNL Report
There is a large and growing body of well-documented social media misinformation related to the origin, treatment, and severity of the COVID19 epidemic. This research examines the impact of this misinformation on human health outcomes for several countries affected by COVID-19 at the sub-national level. This report responds to the investigation done to discover the locatio…
Nov, 2025
ORNL Report
Residential, industrial, and large load data center facility expansion have exacerbated management backlogs. Additionally, as newer technologies emerge in larger utility providers, a chasm between urban and rural resilience grows – creating segmentation across the state. With new development, industries, and large load additions to the electric grid across the Volunteer st…
Nov, 2025
ORNL Report
Mississippi’s electric grid resilience challenges are linked to an intersection of complex socioeconomic, ecological, technological, historical, and political challenges, exacerbated by increasing severe weather like flooding and tornado events. The state’s legacy of underinvestment in critical energy infrastructure, particularly in rural areas and vulnerable floodplains,…
Oct, 2025
ORNL Report
This report is intended to help your state identify the most effective investments to improve grid resilience and reliability, based on analysis of outage data, weather events, and the current state of the electric grid. The information presented is derived from the best available data. The discussions and recommendations included provide context and valuable insights into…