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Risk of Cascading Failures

PSERC Project S-26

 

 

 

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.

 

Researchers

 

 

 

 

          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

 

 

 

 

 

Industrial Partners

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yuri Makarov

CAISO

ymakarov@caiso.com

 

Jianzhong Tong

PJM

tongji@pjm.com

 

Kip Morison

Powertech Labs Inc

kip.morison@powertechlabs.com

 

Eugene Litvinov

ISO New England

elitvinov@iso-ne.com

 

Ali Chowdhury

MidAmerican Energy Co

aachowdhury@midamerican.com

 

Floyd Galvan

Entergy Corporation

fgalvin@entergy.com

 

Khoi Vu

ABB

Khoi.Vu@us.abb.com

 

Anatoliy Meklin

PG & E

 

 

Lawrence Jones

AREVA

lawrence.jones@areva-td.com

 

Aty Edris

EPRI

aedris@epri.com

 

Rod Hardiman

Southern Co.

rchardim@southernco.com

 

Jean-Philippe Paul

RTE

jean-philippe.paul@rte-france.com

 

 

 

 

Progress Reports

 

 

 

·        Designing A Multi-Agent System To Stop Cascading Failures After They Have Started
Sarosh Talukdar, Paul Hines, Carnegie Mellon University, January 2006
 

·        Controlling Cascading Failures with Cooperative Autonomous Agents

Paul Hines and Sarosh Talukdar, Carnegie Mellon University
 

·        Distributed Model Predictive Control for the Mitigation of Cascading Failures

Sarosh Talukdar, Dong Jia, Paul Hines, and Bruce H. Krogh, March 2005

 

Publications

·         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 Conf. on Networking, Sensing, and Control. Tucson, Mar. 2005.

·         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.

·         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.