Flood-Risk-Exposure

Flood Risk Exposure Mapping for Energy Resources

Combining flood, terrain and energy-asset data to map the exposure of substations and distributed energy resources in the Durham area, supported by a reproducible data and visualisation workflow.

Project Overview & Team
EPSRC-funded Vacation Internship Project
Associated with the UKRI grant: “Satellite-Aided Technologies for advancing resilience - Guarding energy services under climate hazards, risks, and disasters (SAT-Guard)” UKRI Gateway
Student Research Associates: Isabelle Servonat, Oscar Ryley
Supervisors: Prof. Hongjian Sun, Dr Wenzhu Li, and Dr Misael Alpizar Santana

Initial Data Sources

• Northern Power Grid: Open Data Portal
• Renewable: Renewables.ninja
• Hazard-Energy: Hazard-Energy Interrelationship Matrix
• Past Weather Events: Met Office, Past Weather Events
• Flood Risk Map: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Surface Water
• NASA Earth Data: earthdata.nasa.gov

Citation

BibTeX:

@misc{servonat_ryley_2026_floodrisk,
  author       = {Servonat, Isabelle and Ryley, Oscar and Sun, Hongjian and Li, Wenzhu and Alpizar Santana, Misael},
  title        = {Flood Risk Exposure Mapping for Energy Resources in the Durham Area},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {GitHub},
  journal      = {GitHub Repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/oscar-ryley/flood-risk-exposure}},
  note         = {EPSRC Vacation Internship Project, Associated with UKRI Grant MR/Z50578X/1}
}