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Title: Creating cascading failure scenarios in interconnected power systems
Author (s): Chowdhury, Badrul H.
Baravc, S.
Department/Lab Affiliations: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Power Systems Laboratory
Keywords: 118 bus test system
Catastrophic failure
blackout
cascading outages
countermeasures
failure scenario cascade
interconnected power systems
power system faults
power system interconnection
system blackout
system vulnerability
vegetation management
Issue Date: 2006
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation: Chowdhury, B.H.; Baravc, S. "Creating cascading failure scenarios in interconnected power systems" IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2006. 18-22 June 2006 Pages: 8 pp.
Abstract: The reported catastrophic failures of power systems from different geographical parts of the world often point to cascading outage events of system elements that eventually had led to system blackout. Although the initiating events of these cascading failures may, at times, be avoidable by vegetation management or proper protection settings, the occurrence of such an event as well as the eventual impact cannot always be predicted. There is much debate in the industry whether the operator has enough time to apply countermeasures to avoid blackouts. Besides, the process of determining effective countermeasures cannot be deemed accurate unless a system has been extensively studied for the occurrence of widespread blackouts. In this paper, methods to create different cascading failure scenarios are developed under credible contingency conditions. The methods are tested on the 118 bus test system and several cases are reported.
Type: Article - Conference proceedings
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titleCreating cascading failure scenarios in interconnected power systems
contributor.authorChowdhury, Badrul H.
contributor.authorBaravc, S.
contributor.deptlabElectrical and Computer Engineering
contributor.deptlabPower Systems Laboratory
subject118 bus test system
subjectCatastrophic failure
subjectblackout
subjectcascading outages
subjectcountermeasures
subjectfailure scenario cascade
subjectinterconnected power systems
subjectpower system faults
subjectpower system interconnection
subjectsystem blackout
subjectsystem vulnerability
subjectvegetation management
date.issued2006
date.submitted2007
publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
identifier.citationChowdhury, B.H.; Baravc, S. "Creating cascading failure scenarios in interconnected power systems" IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2006. 18-22 June 2006 Pages: 8 pp.
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description.abstractThe reported catastrophic failures of power systems from different geographical parts of the world often point to cascading outage events of system elements that eventually had led to system blackout. Although the initiating events of these cascading failures may, at times, be avoidable by vegetation management or proper protection settings, the occurrence of such an event as well as the eventual impact cannot always be predicted. There is much debate in the industry whether the operator has enough time to apply countermeasures to avoid blackouts. Besides, the process of determining effective countermeasures cannot be deemed accurate unless a system has been extensively studied for the occurrence of widespread blackouts. In this paper, methods to create different cascading failure scenarios are developed under credible contingency conditions. The methods are tested on the 118 bus test system and several cases are reported.
typeArticle - Conference proceedings
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