Vulnerability of the US Western Electric Grid to Hydro-Climatological Conditions: how bad can it get? 

Nathalie Voisin1, Michael Kintner-Meyer1, Richard Skaggs2, James Dirks1, Tony B Nguyen1, Di Wu1, Yulong Xie1 and Mohamad Issa Hejazi1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, WA, United States