Vulnerability assessment for cascading failures in electric power systems

Author

Baldick, Ross ; Chowdhury, Badrul ; Dobson, Ian ; Dong, Zhaoyang ; Gou, Bei ; Hawkins, David ; Huang, Zhenyu ; Joung, Manho ; Kim, Janghoon ; Kirschen, Daniel ; Lee, Stephen ; Li, Fangxing ; Li, Juan ; Li, Zuyi ; Liu, Chen-Ching ; Luo, Xiaochuan ; Mili, L

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

Cascading failures present severe threats to power grid security, and thus vulnerability assessment of power grids is of significant importance. Focusing on analytic methods, this paper reviews the state of the art of vulnerability assessment methods in the context of cascading failures. These methods are based on steady-state power grid modeling or high-level probabilistic modeling. The impact of emerging technologies including phasor technology, high-performance computing techniques, and visualization techniques on the vulnerability assessment of cascading failures is then addressed, and future research directions are presented.

Keywords

fault diagnosis; power grids; power system security; cascading failures; electric power systems; high-level probabilistic modeling; high-performance computing techniques; phasor technology; power grid security; steady-state power grid modeling; visualization techniques; vulnerability assessment; Failure analysis; Power grids; Power system analysis computing; Power system dynamics; Power system faults; Power system modeling; Power system protection; Power system reliability; Power system restoration; Steady-state; Cascading Failure; Electric Power Systems; Phasor Technology; Probability Analysis; Vulnerability Assessment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Systems Conference and Exposition, 2009. PSCE '09. IEEE/PES

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3810-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3811-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PSCE.2009.4839939

Filename

4839939