Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Energy Systems (IWIES), 2013 IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
DOI :
10.1109/IWIES.2013.6698576
