Real-Time Contingency Analysis with Transmission Switching on Real Power System Data

Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, Xingpeng Li, Pranavamoorthy Balasubramanian, Kory W. Hedman, Mojdeh Abdi-Khorsand. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2016.
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20160601_RTCA_Letter.pdf
DOI
10.1109/TPWRS.2015.2465140
Codes
GRTOS-Java
Authors in the RPG Lab
(might be unordered here; check the citation below)
Xingpeng Li

Abstract

Transmission switching (TS) has shown to be an effective power flow control tool. TS can reduce the system cost, improve system reliability, and enhance the management of intermittent renewable resources. This paper addresses the state of the art problem of TS by developing an AC-based real-time contingency analysis (RTCA) package with TS. The package is tested on real power system data, taken from energy management systems of PJM, TVA, and ERCOT. The results show that post-contingency corrective switching is a ready to be implemented transformational technology that provides substantial reliability gains. The computational time and the performance of the developed RTCA package, reported in the paper, are promising.

Index Terms

Power system reliability, power transmission control, real-time contingency analysis, transmission switching.

Cite this paper:

Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, Xingpeng Li, Pranavamoorthy Balasubramanian, Kory W. Hedman, and Mojdeh Abdi-Khorsand, “Real-Time Contingency Analysis with Transmission Switching on Real Power System Data,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 2501-2502, May 2016.