Reducing the risk of major blackouts through improved power system visualization

15th Power Systems Computation Conference, PSCC 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Overbye, Thomas J ^a   Wiegmann, Douglas A ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data visualization; Power systems; Realtime operations; Reducing blackout risk

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; VISUALIZATION;

CONTOURING; CORRECTIVE CONTROL ACTIONS; EMERGENCY CONTROL; POWER SYSTEM VISUALIZATION; REAL-TIME OPERATION; STATE OF SYSTEM; TIME-SCALES; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

OUTAGES;

EID: 84983196481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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