Cascading failures present severe threats to power grid security, and thus vulnerability assessment of power grids is of significant importance. Focusing on analytic methods, this paper reviews the state of the art of vulnerability assessment methods in the context of cascading failures in three categories: steady-state modeling based analysis; dynamic modeling analysis; and non-traditional modeling approaches. The impact of emerging technologies including phasor technology, high-performance computing techniques, and visualization techniques on the vulnerability assessment of cascading failures is then addressed, and future research directions are presented.
Revised: May 12, 2010 |
Published: September 10, 2008
Citation
Baldick R., B. Chowdhury, I. Dobson, Z.Y. Dong, B. Gou, D.L. Hawkins, and Z. Huang, et al. 2008.Vulnerability Assessment for Cascading Failures in Electric Power Systems. In IEEE/PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition, PSCE '09. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE.PNNL-SA-62287.doi:10.1109/PSCE.2009.4839939