Assessing vulnerability to cascading outages

2009 IEEE/PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition, PSCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bhatt, Navin ^a   Sarawgi, S ^a   O'Keefe, R ^a   Duggan, P ^b   Koenig, M ^b   Leschuk, M ^b   Lee, S ^c   Sun, K ^c   Kolluri, V ^d   Mandal, S ^d   Peterson, M ^d   Brotzman, D ^e   Hedden, S ^e   Litvinov, E ^f   Maslennikov, S ^f   Luo, X ^f   Uzunovic, E ^g   Fardanesh, B ^g   Hopkins, L ^g   Mander, A ^h   Carman, K ^h   Vaiman, M Y ⁱ   Vaiman, M M ⁱ   Povolotskiy, M ⁱ   more..

^a AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER   (United States)

^b Con Edison ^*  (United States)

^c ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Entergy Corporation   (United States)

^e Exelon Corporation   (United States)

^f ISO NE ^*  (United States)

^g NYPA   (United States)

^h Tri State G and T   (United States)

ⁱ V and R Energy Systems Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascading outages; Cascading tiers; Initiating events; Transmission reliability; Vulnerability index

Indexed keywords

CASCADING OUTAGES; CASCADING TIERS; INITIATING EVENTS; TRANSMISSION RELIABILITY; VULNERABILITY INDEX;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; POWER TRANSMISSION; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

OUTAGES;

EID: 70349183770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PSCE.2009.4840032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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