Risk-based composite power system vulnerability evaluation to cascading failures using importance sampling

IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chen, Quan ^a   Mili, Lamine ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cascading failures; Composite power systems; importance sampling; Monte Carlo methods; risk assessment

Indexed keywords

CASCADING FAILURES; COMPOSITE POWER SYSTEM RELIABILITY; COMPOSITE POWER SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; IEEE-RELIABILITY TEST SYSTEM; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; LARGE-SCALE BLACKOUT; MONTE CARLO; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; POWER SYSTEM PLANNING; POWER SYSTEMS OPERATION; RISK-BASED; SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; TRANSIENT INSTABILITY; VOLTAGE COLLAPSE; VOLTAGE SAGS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; POWER QUALITY; POWER TRANSMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 82855172284     PISSN: 19449925     EISSN: 19449933     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PES.2011.6039616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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