On Self-Organized Criticality of the East China AC–DC Power System—The Role of DC Transmission

In this paper, we aim to analyze the impact of dc transmission on self-organized criticality (SOC) of the East China power system (ECPS), which is a large-scale, ac-dc interconnected and classical receiving-end power system. To this end, a detailed ac-dc cascading failure analysis model is established to study the SOC of this system. In the proposed model, some important issues of dc transmission and several kinds of stochastic factors are considered. The corresponding algorithm realized on the platform of the PSS/E software is discussed as well. Simulation based on the 2010 East China ac-dc power system is performed and the following results are obtained: 1) the dc issues such as the operation modes and the control parameters have obvious effects on the SOC of the ac-dc system and 2) the risk of cascading failure and blackout can be decreased by deliberately choosing the dc operation modes and control parameters.