TY - GEN
T1 - Blueprint for iteratively hardening power grids employing unified power flow controllers
AU - Siever, William M.
AU - Miller, Ann
AU - Tauritz, Daniel R.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - A stable electricity supply is vital for modern society. However, many parts of our power transmission grid are operating near their operational limits. Such stressed systems are vulnerable to cascading failures, where a few small faults can induce a cascade of failures potentially leading to a major blackout. The Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC), the most powerful high-speed, semi-conductor based power flow device, can be used as a theoretical model to study how these devices can be used to improve power grid resilience. The blueprint presented here can be used to iteratively identify critical weaknesses in power grids and to recommend a means of fixing these weaknesses via the installation of UPFCs. This approach to hardening the power transmission grid will make it less prone to blackouts and better able to forestall or reduce the severity of unavoidable blackouts.
AB - A stable electricity supply is vital for modern society. However, many parts of our power transmission grid are operating near their operational limits. Such stressed systems are vulnerable to cascading failures, where a few small faults can induce a cascade of failures potentially leading to a major blackout. The Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC), the most powerful high-speed, semi-conductor based power flow device, can be used as a theoretical model to study how these devices can be used to improve power grid resilience. The blueprint presented here can be used to iteratively identify critical weaknesses in power grids and to recommend a means of fixing these weaknesses via the installation of UPFCs. This approach to hardening the power transmission grid will make it less prone to blackouts and better able to forestall or reduce the severity of unavoidable blackouts.
KW - Critical infrastructure protection
KW - Evolutionary algorithm
KW - FACTS
KW - Power grid
KW - UPFC
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/47249161664
U2 - 10.1109/SYSOSE.2007.4304291
DO - 10.1109/SYSOSE.2007.4304291
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:47249161664
SN - 1424411602
SN - 9781424411603
T3 - 2007 IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, SOSE
BT - 2007 IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, SOSE
T2 - 2007 IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, SOSE
Y2 - 16 April 2007 through 18 April 2007
ER -