Towards Effective Clustering Techniques for the Analysis of Electric Power Grids
Clustering is an important data analysis technique with numerous applications in the analysis of electric power grids. Standard clustering techniques are oblivious to the rich structural and dynamic information available for power grids. Therefore, by exploiting the inherent topological and electrical structure in the power grid data, we propose new methods for clustering with applications to model reduction, locational marginal pricing, phasor measurement unit (PMU or synchrophasor) placement, and power system protection. We focus our attention on model reduction for analysis based on time-series information from synchrophasor measurement devices, and spectral techniques for clustering. By comparing different clustering techniques on two instances of realistic power grids we show that the solutions are related and therefore one could leverage that relationship for a computational advantage. Thus, by contrasting different clustering techniques we make a case for exploiting structure inherent in the data with implications for several domains including power systems.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 1129371
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-98979; KJ0401000
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: HiPCNA-PG: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on High Performance Computing, Networking and Analytics for the Power Grid, November 17-21, 2013, Denver Colorado, Article No. 1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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