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Sequential Outage Checkers for Analyzing Cascading Outages and Preventing Large Blackouts

  • Hur, Jin (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin) ;
  • Joung, Man-Ho (Lower Colorado River Authority) ;
  • Baldick, Ross (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin)
  • Received : 2010.12.13
  • Accepted : 2011.05.19
  • Published : 2011.09.01
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Abstract

This paper presents the use of sequential outage checkers to identify the potential cascading processes that might lead to large blackouts. In order to analyze cascading outages caused by a combination of thermal overloads, low voltages, and under-frequencies following an initial disturbance, sequential outage checkers are proposed. The proposed sequential outage checkers are verified using the AEP 9-bus system, New England 39-bus system, and IEEE 118-bus system.

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