Creating cascading failure scenarios in interconnected power systems

2006 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, PES

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chowdhury, Badrul H ^a,b   Baravc, Sushant ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackout; Cascading outages; Catastrophic failure; Countermeasures; System vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; OUTAGES;

CASCADING OUTAGES; CATASTROPHIC FAILURE; SYSTEM VULNERABILITY;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 35348880976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/pes.2006.1709061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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