Distribution Optimal Resilience Design Tool ?LPNORM?
The Distribution Optimal Resilience Design Tool, known as LPNORM, is a software module distributed through NRECA?s Open Modeling Framework that helps utilities plan resilience investments on distribution circuits. Users can import detailed circuit and pole models, define extreme?weather damage scenarios, and specify resilience criteria such as outage durations or customer impacts. LPNORM then formulates and solves an optimization problem that recommends cost?effective resilience measures, including targeted hardening, undergrounding, sectionalizing, and deployment of microgrids or other distributed resources. The accompanying final report documents model formulation, data needs, and example applications, making the tool a useful reference for co?ops and utilities designing resilience programs that explicitly consider both costs and resilience benefits at the distribution?system level.
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AB - The Distribution Optimal Resilience Design Tool, known as LPNORM, is a software module distributed through NRECA’s Open Modeling Framework that helps utilities plan resilience investments on distribution circuits. Users can import detailed circuit and pole models, define extreme‑weather damage scenarios, and specify resilience criteria such as outage durations or customer impacts. LPNORM then formulates and solves an optimization problem that recommends cost‑effective resilience measures, including targeted hardening, undergrounding, sectionalizing, and deployment of microgrids or other distributed resources. The accompanying final report documents model formulation, data needs, and example applications, making the tool a useful reference for co‑ops and utilities designing resilience programs that explicitly consider both costs and resilience benefits at the distribution‑system level.
AU - Pinney, David
DB - C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange
DP - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO -
KW - Battery energy storage
KW - Diesel generators
KW - Other liquid-fuel generators
KW - Resilience
KW - Extreme weather
KW - Planning and design
KW - Planning
KW - Design
LA - English
DA - 2024/11/01
PY - 2024
PB - National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
T1 - Distribution Optimal Resilience Design Tool “LPNORM”
UR - https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/165
ER -
Pinney, David. Distribution Optimal Resilience Design Tool ?LPNORM?. National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 1 November, 2024, C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/165.
Pinney, D. (2024). Distribution Optimal Resilience Design Tool ?LPNORM?. [Data set]. C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/165
Pinney, David. Distribution Optimal Resilience Design Tool ?LPNORM?. National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, November, 1, 2024. Distributed by C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/165
@misc{CMIX_Dataset_165,
title = {Distribution Optimal Resilience Design Tool ?LPNORM?},
author = {Pinney, David},
abstractNote = {The Distribution Optimal Resilience Design Tool, known as LPNORM, is a software module distributed through NRECA?s Open Modeling Framework that helps utilities plan resilience investments on distribution circuits. Users can import detailed circuit and pole models, define extreme?weather damage scenarios, and specify resilience criteria such as outage durations or customer impacts. LPNORM then formulates and solves an optimization problem that recommends cost?effective resilience measures, including targeted hardening, undergrounding, sectionalizing, and deployment of microgrids or other distributed resources. The accompanying final report documents model formulation, data needs, and example applications, making the tool a useful reference for co?ops and utilities designing resilience programs that explicitly consider both costs and resilience benefits at the distribution?system level.},
url = {https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/165},
year = {2024},
howpublished = {C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/165},
note = {Accessed: 2026-08-06}
}
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Data from Nov 1, 2024
Last updated Mar 30, 2026
Submitted Jun 2, 2026
Organization
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Contact
David Pinney
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