cascading failures

Markov Chain Sampling of Hidden Relay States for Economic Dispatch with Cascading Failures

  • John Birge
  • Arnab Sur
    • Categories (Mixed) Integer Linear Programming, Energy, Stochastic Programming Tags , , , , ,

    Independent system operators (ISO) of electric power networks aim to dispatch electricity economically while maintaining system reliability. NERC (North America Electric Reliability Council) requires the transmission network to be (N-1)-secure, i.e., to have sufficient supply to satisfy demand in the event of the failure of any single resource in the network. Such a policy is … Read more

    Failure Probability Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow

  • Mihai Anitescu
  • Anirudh Subramanyam
  • Jacob Roth
    • Categories Energy, Nonlinear Optimization Tags ,

    Despite cascading failures being the central cause of blackouts in power transmission systems, existing operational and planning decisions are made largely by ignoring their underlying cascade potential. This paper posits a reliability-aware AC Optimal Power Flow formulation that seeks to design a dispatch point which has a low operator-specified likelihood of triggering a cascade starting … Read more