Hello, everyone. Hello, Current Affairs podcast, Bird Feed. This is Sparky Abraham. I am the

finance editor and infrastructure groupie here with a special episode in our ongoing

infrastructure series, which is not really a series until now, but now it's officially a series.

I am here with an extremely special guest. I'm here with Magnus Jameson. Magnus is a

researcher. His theory of study. I just want to read like, this is the title of your dissertation

that you sent me, right? Yeah. Okay, so the dissertation is quantification and mitigation of the

impacts of extreme weather on power system resilience and reliability.

So that sounds cool as hell. Hi, Magnus. What does that mean?

So I think each term here is a very specific meaning in the context of power systems.

Because when we talk about quantification, we're assigning a number to something. So what is the cost here?

What is the magnitude of the impact in terms of assigning a number to it so we can assign a cost, so we can respond to it.

And mitigation is obviously what are we going to do about this, what are the investment decisions or what have you to address this.

Extreme weather kind of speaks for itself, but

resilience and reliability are very, very specific concepts in the context of power systems.

You know, resilience, we're talking about high impact events, destroying large sections

of the power system, or rendering it inoperable, or doing damage, you know, hurricanes or,

for instance, wildfires. Reliability is just the sort of day-to-day

minutiae of keeping the lights on for people most of the time to a reasonable level of service.

So I basically looked at modelling if storms, a big storm hit the UK, for instance, and threatened

a load of overhead lines, what would

be the impact of that? How would we plan for that? And going forward, how do we use these

lessons? Do we build more stuff? Or do we just put some more generation in or whatever?

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