Criticality and Risk Aspects of Large Cascading Blackouts

PI: 
Ian Dobson
Project Status: 
Completed

This project focused on transmission system reliability, with the aim of understanding large, cascading failure blackouts and providing tools for analyzing and monitoring their risk.  In particular, the project worked to identify the threshold that leads to increased risk of cascading failure, express this threshold in terms of realistic power system parameters and develop criteria and monitoring tools to be applied in real power transmission systems.

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Dobson, Ian, Benjamin A Carreras, and David E Newman. Probabilistic Load-Dependent Cascading Failure with Limited Component Interactions. 2004.
Dobson, Ian, Benjamin A Carreras, and David E Newman. "A Probabilistic Loading-dependent Model of Cascading Failure and Possible Implications for Blackouts." Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2003: 9.
Carreras, Benjamin A, V.E. Lynch, David E Newman, and Ian Dobson. "Blackout mitigation assessment in power transmission systems." 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Big Island, HI, USA: IEEE, 2003. 10 pp.
Dobson, Ian, David E Newman, Benjamin A Carreras, and Vickie E Lynch. "An Initial Complex Systems Analysis of the Risks of Blackouts in Power Transmission Systems." Conference on Power Systems and Communications Infrastructures for the Future. Beijing, China, 2002. 7.

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Carreras, Benjamin A, Ian Dobson, and David E Newman. Dynamics, Criticality, and Self-organization in a Model for Blackouts in Power Transmission Systems. 2002.
Dobson, Ian, Jie Chen, James S Thorp, Benjamin A Carreras, and David E Newman. Examining Criticality of Blackouts in Power System Models with Cascading Events. 2002.
Carreras, Benjamin A, Ian Dobson, and James S Thorp. Complex Systems Approach to Cascading Failures. 2001.

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