Predicting failures in power grids: The case of static overloads

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 162-172

  Chertkov, Michael ^a   Pan, Feng ^b   Stepanov, Mikhail G ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Mathematics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Distance to failure; power flow; rare events

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; OUTAGES;

DC POWER FLOW MODELS; LOAD FLUCTUATIONS; LOW PROBABILITY; OPERATIONAL MODES; POWER FLOWS; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; RARE EVENTS; STATIC LOAD DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 79951954598     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2010.2090912     Document Type: Article

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