A study of self-organized criticality of power system under cascading failures based on AC-OPF with voltage stability margin

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1719-1726

  Mei, Shengwei ^a   Ni, Yixin ^b   Wang, Gang ^a   Wu, Shengyu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Blackout model; Cascade failures; Optimal power flow; Self organized criticality; Voltage stability

Indexed keywords

BLACKOUT MODEL; CASCADE FAILURES; OPTIMAL POWER FLOW; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; VOLTAGE STABILITY;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); DYNAMICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; MODAL ANALYSIS; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER TRANSMISSION; REACTIVE POWER; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 70350522031     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2008.2002295     Document Type: Article

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