Estimating failure propagation in models of cascading blackouts

2004 International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 641-646

  Dobson, Ian ^a   Carreras, Benjamin A ^b   Lynch, Vickie E ^b   Nkei, Bertrand ^b   Newman, David E ^c  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK COMPONENTS; OUTAGES;

CASCADING BLACKOUTS; CASCADING FAILURES; ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE; TRANSIENT INSTABILITY;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 14544294482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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