Rare-event splitting simulation for analysis of power system blackouts

IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wang, Sing Po ^a   Chen, Argon ^a   Liu, Chih Wen ^b   Chen, Chun Hung ^c   Shortle, John ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

Author keywords

blackout; cascading failure; rare event probability; simulation

Indexed keywords

BLACKOUT; CASCADING FAILURES; ELECTRIC GRIDS; POWER SYSTEM BLACKOUT; RARE EVENT SIMULATION; SIMULATION; SIMULATION EFFICIENCY;

CIRCUIT THEORY; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; PROBABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 82855167134     PISSN: 19449925     EISSN: 19449933     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PES.2011.6039280     Document Type: Conference Paper

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