MATCASC: A tool to analyse cascading line outages in power grids

Author

Koc, Y. ; Verma, T. ; Araujo, Nuno A. M. ; Warnier, Matthieu

Author_Institution

Fac. of Technol., Policy & Manage., Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands

fYear

2013

fDate

14-14 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

143

Lastpage

148

Abstract

Blackouts in power grids typically result from cascading failures. The key importance of the electric power grid to society encourages further research into sustaining power system reliability and developing new methods to manage the risks of cascading blackouts. Adequate software tools are required to better analyse, understand, and assess the consequences of the cascading failures. This paper presents MATCASC, an open source MATLAB based tool to analyse cascading failures in power grids. Cascading effects due to line overload outages are considered. The applicability of the MATCASC tool is demonstrated by assessing the robustness of IEEE test systems and real-world power grids with respect to cascading failures.

Keywords

failure analysis; load flow; power engineering computing; power grids; power transmission lines; power transmission reliability; public domain software; risk analysis; software tools; IEEE test systems robustness assessment; MATCASC tool; cascading blackouts; cascading effect; cascading failure analysis; cascading line outages analysis; electric power grid; line overload outages; open source Matlab based tool; power system reliability; risk management; software tools; Load modeling; Mathematical model; Power grids; Power system faults; Power system protection; Power transmission lines; Robustness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Energy Systems (IWIES), 2013 IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Vienna

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWIES.2013.6698576

Filename

6698576