Maximizing power-system loadability in the presence of multiple binding complementarity constraints

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1775-1787

  Karystianos, Michael E ^a,b   Maratos, Nicholas G ^a   Vournas, Costas D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS NTUA   (Greece)

^b Public Power Corporation   (Greece)

Author keywords

Complementarity constraints; Corner point (CP); Loadability limit; Loadability surface; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPLEMENTARITY CONSTRAINTS; CORNER POINT (CP); ELECTRIC POWER-SYSTEM LOADABILITY; LOADABILITY LIMIT;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547981663     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2007.902529     Document Type: Article

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