Where is the edge for cascading failure?: Challenges and opportunities for quantifying blackout risk

2007 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, PES

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Dobson, Ian ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACKOUT RISK; CASCADING FAILURES; POWER SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ELECTRIC LOAD SHEDDING;

EID: 42649126022     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PES.2007.385773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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