ENEA and Acea Distribuzione are experimenting with software that is called CIPCast, able to calculate the impact of rainfall on the electricity distribution networks, and to better manage the events related to the Jubilee in every single area of the Capital.
“once acquired data from sensors and weather forecasts – says Vittorio Rosato , head of the Laboratory Analysis and Protection Critical infrastructure ENEA – the application processes the risk scenarios, identifies the elements of the infrastructure at risk, estimate the impact on services and quantifies the effects that their eventual interruption may produce of citizens and productive system. Having this information available – continues Rosato – allows the company to not only electricity, but also to those who administer the city and deals its security to handle situations crisis and establish an effective means for rapid interventions “.
Born from the need to deal with weather events more and more frequent, intense and characterized by greater dangers in an urban context, the CIPCast software integrates geospatial data, weather forecasts up to 1 hour ( nowcasting ) and short to medium term with information on ‘ hydrogeological and the occurrence of earthquakes and other major natural events.
Between 2010 and the early months of 2015 in Italy were 43 the electrical blackout days due to bad weather. Between 2013 and 2014 there was very 5 cases of flooding in large areas of the municipality , all episodes related to heavy rains concentrated in the space of a few hours. Also in Rome, in just over 5 years of monitoring (from October 2010 to 2015), were 15 extreme events recorded on the map of climate risk and 24 days to stop the subways and suburban trains due to heavy rains 1 .
the system that ENEA is testing in collaboration with ACEA Distribuzione – and soon to be extended to the control of the water network of ATO2 – is part of the Rome project (Resilience enhancement of Metropolitan Areas) funded by the Ministry of Education, University and Research.
This project takes ‘inspiration’ from technologies developed in the European project CIPRNet (Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience Research Network) for the analysis of risk of competence Centres in Europe critical infrastructure that will provide 24 hours 24 will provide risk analysis of critical infrastructures with a prediction from a few hours to a few days.
> the system – such as the one under investigation in Rome – will allow to give directions to the Civil Protection and Local authorities for strategies and actions to be put in place to reduce the impact of weather events and effectively restore services. The study, therefore, new technological responses to increase the responsiveness of the cities in crisis situations, thus improving its resilience.
“Preserving the power grid from any failures or interruptions priority to avoid consequences for the population and the so-called domino effect, ie an extended blackout of other critical infrastructures that provide essential services such as’ drinking water, waste disposal , rail traffic and telecommunications , “comments Maurizio Pollino, a researcher at the Laboratory Analysis and Critical Infrastructure Protection of ‘ENEA.
1 data source: last dossier of Legambiente “the Italian cities to the climate challenge” in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment and the sea.
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