Risk assessment of cascading outages: Methodologies and challenges

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 631-641

  Vaiman, M ^a   Bell, K ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Chowdhury, B ^a   Dobson, I ^a   Hines, P ^a   Papic, M ^a   Miller, S ^a   Zhang, P ^a  

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Author keywords

Cascading failure; power transmission system reliability; preventing cascades; risk analysis; sequential contingency analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CASCADING FAILURES; CASCADING OUTAGES; CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS; HEURISTIC APPROACH; OBSERVED DATA; POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; TASK FORCE;

HEURISTIC METHODS; RISK ANALYSIS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84860251424     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2011.2177868     Document Type: Article

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