Efficient Simulation of Cascading Outages Using an Energy Function-Embedded Quasi-Steady-State Model

Guo, Zhenping; Su, Xiaowen; Huang, Kaiyang; Sun, Kai; Simunovic, Srdjan; Chiang, Hsiao-Dong

doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2025.3527811

Efficient Simulation of Cascading Outages Using an Energy Function-Embedded Quasi-Steady-State Model

Journal Article · Wed Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2025.3527811· OSTI ID:2573360

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Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
ISO New England, Windsor, CT (United States)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)

Here, this paper proposed an energy function-embedded quasi-steady-state model for efficient simulation of cascading outages on a power grid while addressing transient stability concerns. Compared to quasi-steady-state models, the proposed model incorporates short-term dynamic simulation and an energy function method to efficiently evaluate the transient stability of a power grid together with outage propagation without transient stability simulation. Cascading outage simulation using the proposed model conducts three steps for each disturbance such as a line outage. First, it performs time-domain simulation for a short term to obtain a post-disturbance trajectory. Second, along the trajectory, the system state with the local maximum potential energy is found and used as the initial point to search for a relevant unstable equilibrium by Newton's method. Third, the transient energy margin is estimated based on this unstable equilibrium to predict an out-of-step condition with generators. The proposed energy function-embedded quasi-steady-state model is tested in terms of its accuracy and time performance on an NPCC 140-bus power system and compared to a quasi-steady-state model embedding transient stability simulation.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 2573360

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2573524

Journal Information:: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 40; ISSN 1558-0679; ISSN 0885-8950

Publisher:: IEEECopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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