2017/03/17 by Harsha Nagarajan, Russell Bent, Nagarajan, Harsha +7 · 1 citation
Engineering · #FOS: Electrical engineering #FOS: Mathematics #Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis #Optimal Power Flow Distribution #Optimization and Control (math.OC) #Power System Optimization and Stability #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1703.05893
openalex publication_date 2017/03/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
As illustrated in recent years (Superstorm Sandy, the Northeast Ice Storm of 1998, etc.), extreme weather events pose an enormous threat to the electric power transmission systems and the associated socio-economic systems that depend on reliable delivery of electric power. Besides inevitable malfunction of power grid components, deliberate malicious attacks can cause high risks to the service. These threats motivate the need for approaches and methods that improve the resilience of power systems. In this paper, we develop a model and tractable methods for optimizing the upgrade of transmission systems through a combination of hardening existing components, adding redundant lines, switches, generators, and FACTS and phase-shifting devices. While many of these controllable components are included in traditional design (expansion planning) problems, we uniquely assess their benefits from a resiliency point of view. More importantly, perhaps, we evaluate the suitability of using state-of-the-art AC power flow relaxations versus the common DC approximation in resilience improvement studies. The resiliency model and algorithms are tested on a modified version of the RTS-96 (single area) system.