| Carnegie Mellon | ECE | CEIC | PSERC | |
| Risk of Cascading Failures |
| PSERC Project S-26 |
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Goals: To develop tools for monitoring and managing the risk of cascading failures. These tools will identify contingencies that could initiate cascading failures, estimate the overall risk (high, medium, or low), and provide advice to operators on how to reduce the risk. |
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| Carnegie Mellon University | Sarosh Talukdar (project leader) | talukdar@ece.cmu.edu |
| Paul Hines | phines@cmu.edu | |
| Huaiwei Liao | hliao@cmu.edu | |
| Iowa State University | James McCalley | jdm@iastate.edu |
| University of Wisconsin | Ian Dobson | dobson@engr.wisc.edu |
| Kevin Wierzbicki (graduated) | wierzbicki@wisc.edu | |
| JangHoon Kim | jhkim25@wisc.edu | |
| Hui Ren | hren@wisc.edu | |
| Work in Progress | |
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| Chapter 1: System Topology Based Identification of High Risk N-k Contingencies Siddhartha Khaitan, Ph.D. Candidate, James D. McCalley, Professor, ECE, Iowa State University |
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| Transmission Security: Rules, Risks, and Blackouts James D. McCalley, Iowa State University, Midwest ISO's System Operator Training Short Course, April 24-28, 2006 (With Assistance from Abdul Ardate, Siddhartha Khaitan, and Fei Xia) |
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| Can Cascading Failures Be Eliminated? Sarosh Talukdar, CEIC, Carnegie Mellon University, EPRI-RAC, March 2006 |
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| The Frequency of Large Blackouts in the United States Paul Hines, Carnegie Mellon University, EPRI-RAC Poster, March 2006 [.pdf] |
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| Designing A Multi-Agent System To Stop Cascading Failures After They Have Started Sarosh Talukdar, Paul Hines, Carnegie Mellon University, January 2006 |
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| Monitoring Overall Risk of Blackouts: Explanation and Plan Ian Dobson, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2006 |
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| Operational Defense of Power System Cascading Outages James D. McCalley, IEEE PES T&D Conference and Exposition: Cascading Failures and Blackouts, Dallas, TX, May 2006 |
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| Preventive/Corrective Action Paradigm Presentation by James D. McCalley at the IEEE PES T&D Conference and Exposition: Cascading Failures and Blackouts, Dallas, TX, May 2006 |
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| Attributes of On-Line Cascading Event Tracking and Avoidance Decision Support Tool: A Report Developed for PSerc Project S26: Risk of Cascading Outages Siddhartha Khaitan (Ph.D. Candidate under Prof. James D. McCalley), ECE Department, Iowa State University, May 2006 |
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| System Topology-Based Identification of High Risk N-k Contingencies: A Report Developed for Pserc Project S26: Risk of Cascading Outages Siddhartha Khaitan (Ph.D. Candidate under Prof. James D. McCalley), ECE Department, Iowa State University, May 2006 |
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| Where is the edge for cascading failure?: challenges and opportunities for quantifying blackout risk | |
| Ian Dobson, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Tampa, FL, USA, June 2007 | |
| Distributed Model Predictive Control for the Mitigation of Cascading Failures Sarosh Talukdar, Dong Jia, Paul Hines, and Bruce H. Krogh, March 2005 |
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| Autonomous Agents and Cooperation for the Control of Cascading Failures in Electric Grids Paul Hines, Huaiwei Liao, Dong Jia, and Sarosh Talukdar, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control, Tucson, AZ, March 2005 |
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| Controlling Cascading Failures with Cooperative Autonomous Agents Paul Hines and Sarosh Talukdar, Carnegie Mellon University |
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| Electrical Blackouts: A Systemic Problem Apt, J., L. B. Lave, S. Talukdar, G. M. Morgan, and M. Ilic, Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2004, Pp. 55-61 |
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| Cascading Failures: Survival vs. Prevention Talukdar, S., J. Apt, M. Ilic, L. Lave, and G. M. Morgan, The Electricity Journal, Vol. 16, No. 9, November 2003, pp. 25-31 |
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| Criticality in a Cascading Failure Blackout Model Nedic, D. P., I. Dobson, D. S. Kirschen, B. A. Carreras, and V. E. Lynch, Fifteenth Power Systems Computation Conference, Liege, Belgium, August 2005 |
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| An Estimator of Propagation of Cascading Failure Dobson, I., K. R. Wierzbicki, B. A. Carreras, V. E. Lynch, and D. E. Newman, Thirty-ninth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kauai, HI, January 2006 |
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| An Approach to Statistical Estimation of Cascading Failure Propagation in Blackouts Wierzbicki, K. R. and I. Dobson, preprint to appear at CRIS, Third International Conference on Critical Infrastructures, Alexandria, VA, September 2006 |
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| Statistical Estimation of Cascading Blackout Size and Propagation with Branching Processes K. R. Wierzbicki, MS thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2006 |
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| Previous Wisconsin/ORNL/Alaska, PSERC, CERTS publications on blackout risk and cascading failure I. Dobson, B. A. Carreras, D. E. Newman, J. S. Thorp, et al. |
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