Assessment of power grid vulnerabilities accounting for stochastic loads and model imprecision

Rocchetta, Roberto ORCID: 0000-0002-8117-8737 and Patelli, Edoardo ORCID: 0000-0002-5007-7247 (2018) Assessment of power grid vulnerabilities accounting for stochastic loads and model imprecision. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS, 98. pp. 219-232.

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Abstract

Vulnerability and robustness are major concerns for future power grids. Malicious attacks and extreme weather conditions have the potential to trigger multiple components outages, cascading failures and large blackouts. Robust contingency identification procedures are necessary to improve power grids resilience and identify critical scenarios. This paper proposes a framework for advanced uncertainty quantification and vulnerability assessment of power grids. The framework allows critical failure scenarios to be identified and overcomes the limitations of current approaches by explicitly considering aleatory and epistemic sources of uncertainty modelled using probability boxes. The different effects of stochastic fluctuation of the power demand, imprecision in power grid parameters and uncertainty in the selection of the vulnerability model have been quantified. Spectral graph metrics for vulnerability are computed using different weights and are compared to power-flow-based cascading indices in ranking N-1 line failures and random N-k lines attacks. A rank correlation test is proposed for further comparison of the vulnerability metrics. The IEEE 24 nodes reliability test power network is selected as a representative case study and a detailed discussion of the results and findings is presented.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Vulnerability assessment, Contingency ranking, Power grid, Uncertainty, Overload cascading failures, Spectral graph metrics
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	10 Jan 2018 07:30
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 06:46
DOI:	10.1016/j.ijepes.2017.11.047
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3015713