Number and propagation of line outages in cascading events in electric power transmission systems

2010 48th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1645-1650

  Dobson, Ian ^a   Carreras, Benjamin A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b BACV Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRANCHING PROCESS MODEL; CASCADING EVENTS; CASCADING FAILURES; CASCADING OUTAGES; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; INITIAL FAILURE; LINE OUTAGE; TRANSMISSION LINE;

BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

OUTAGES;

EID: 79952373247     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ALLERTON.2010.5707113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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