Optimal transmission switching analysis and marginal switching results

Author

Barrows, Clayton ; Blumsack, Seth

Author_Institution

Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Strategically removing transmission lines from service has been shown to produce significant system cost savings. This optimization of the transmission network topology is known as transmission switching. The mixed-integer linear programming problem presented by Optimal Transmission Switching is too complex to solve on large systems in real time. Here, we analyze the results of Optimal Transmission Switching on the RTS-96 network to identify network characteristics that may help identify solution sets and reduce computational complexity.

Keywords

computational complexity; integer programming; linear programming; transmission networks; RTS-96 network; computational complexity; marginal switching results; mixed-integer linear programming problem; optimal transmission switching analysis; optimization; transmission network topology; Educational institutions; Network topology; Power system reliability; Power transmission lines; Reliability; Switches; Transmission switching; complex networks; smart grid;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1000-1

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2011.6039669

Filename

6039669